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Time to pregnancy—a model and its application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Jesper L. Boldsen  and
Inger Schaumburg
Jesper L. Boldsen
Affiliation:
Institute of Community Health, Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark
Inger Schaumburg
Affiliation:
Institute of Community Health, Department of Social Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark
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Summary

Biological fertility is poorly measured by the number of children born in industrially advanced societies. The time elapsing from when a couple decides to have a child to clinically recognizable pregnancy is a useful alternative. Time to pregnancy can be collected in broad categories in large samples. A model for condensing important information from such data is presented, which fits several large samples of reported waiting times. It is shown that multiparous women conceive more quickly than primiparous women.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 255 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © 1990, Cambridge University Press

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