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Measuring the uncertainty of population forecasts: a comparison of two approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Joel E. Cohen*
Affiliation:
Rockefeller University

Abstract

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Type
Inference for Stochastic Processes
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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