... 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 ANNOUNCEMENT: CALL FOR SHEPS AWARD NOMINATIONS Nominations are invited for the 1998 Mindel C. Sheps Award in mathematical demography and demographic methodology. This biennial award is sponsored jointly by the Population...

... 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR SHEPS AWARD NOMINATIONS Nominations are invited for the 1996 Mindel C. Sheps Award in mathematical demography and demographic methodology. This biennial award is sponsored jointly by the Population...

... 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 14, Number 3 August 1977 NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR MINDEL C. SHEPS AWARD Nominations are requested for the Mindel C. Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography, to be presented for the third time in 1978 and every...

... 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1973 1973 DEMOGRAPHY@ Volume 10, Number 4 November 1973 THE MINDEL C. SHEPS AWARD IN MATHEMATICAL DEMOGRAPHY Nominations are requested for the Mindel C. Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography to be presented for the first time in 1974...

... 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 DEMOGRAPHY@ Volume 12, Number 3 August 1975 THE MINDEL C. SHEPS AWARD IN MATHEMATICAL DEMOGRAPHY Nominations are requested for the Mindel C. Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography, to be presented for the second time in 1976...

... for representing the length of interval to first conception leading to a live birth. Potter and Parker estimated the parameters of this distribution with the help of the first two moments. Majumdar and Sheps (1970) pointed out the limitations of these moment estimates and gave a method to obtain maximum likelihood...

... of nonreporting and misreporting of pregnancy outcomes upon this rule are examined by means of the Perrin-Sheps renewal process. Two expectations are tested on Taiwanese data. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Pregnancy Outcome Fetal Death Birth Interval Induce Abortion...

...Mindel C. Sheps Summary This paper is an attempt to describe and assess the contributions made by the newer quantitative models of natality to program planning and development. Considerable interest in models of natality is being reflected in reports of a large variety of ideas, suggestions...

...Mindel C. Sheps; Jane A. Menken; Annette P. Radick Abstract Considerable literature now exists on stochastic models for the reproductive history of a cohort of couples. These models are of varying complexity and the relationships between separate treatments are not always clear. A classification...

... FERMOD es ilustrado en una limitada aplicación a la fertilidad en los Estados Unidos, Se discuten brevemente las relaciones con otros modelos. Family Size Amenorrhea Reproductive Period Birth Interval Monte Carlo Model References 1 Sheps M. C. ( 1965 ). “Applications...

... of Contraception . Social Biology , 16 , 39 – 43 . Majumdar H. , & Sheps Mindel C. ( 1970 ). Estimators of a Type I Geometric Distribution from Observations on Conception Times . Demography , 7 , 349 – 360 . 10.2307/2060154 Potter R. G. , & Parker M. P. ( 1964...

...Mindel C. Sheps, M.D. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1964 1964 Resumen Esteestudio considera el efecto delas muertes fetales en las tasasdefecundidad y en lasinferencias derivadas de ellas, utilizando un modelo estocástico para la fecundidad humana. El modelo...

...H. Majumdar; Mindel C. Sheps Abstract In order to study distributions of fecundability, Potter and Parker fitted a Pearson Type I geometric distribution (with parameters a and b ) to data from the Princeton Fertility Study. They, and subsequently other authors, estimated a and b from the observed...

.... ( 1973 ). Aspects Biometriques de la Fecondite Humaine. I.N.E.D. Cahier 65 . Paris : Presses Universitaires de France . Majumdar H. , & Sheps Mindel C. ( 1970 ). Estimators of a Type 1 Geometric Distribution from Observations on Conception Times . Demography , 7 , 349 – 360...

... Relation to Age in a Sample of Taiwanese Women . Population Studies , 23 , 69 – 85 . 10.2307/2173237 James W. H. ( 1973 ). The Fecundability of U.S. Women . Population Studies , 27 , 493 – 500 . 10.2307/2173768 Majumdar H. , & Sheps M. C. ( 1970 ). Estimators...

... measures . Demography , 16 , 377 – 388 . 10.2307/2061219 Park , C. B. ( 1983 ). Preference for sons, family size and sex ratio: An empirical study in Korea . Demography , 20 , 333 – 352 . 10.2307/2061246 Sheps , M. C. ( 1963 ). Effects on family size and sex ratio...

... , 27 , 211 – 219 . Sheps , M. C. , & Menken , J. A. ( 1973 ). Mathematical Models of Conception and Birth . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Simon , H. A. ( 1957 ). Models of Man . New York : Wiley . Tversky , A. , & Kahneman , D. ( 1981...

.... ( 1965 ). French statistical research in natural fertility . In M. C. Sheps , & J. C. Ridley (Eds.), Public Health and Population Change . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press . Hrdlicka A. ( 1931 ). Fecundity in the Sioux women . American Journal of Physical...

... Studies , 17 , 155 – 166 . 10.2307/2172844 Potter Robert G. , & Sakoda James M. ( 1966 ). A Computer Model of Family Building Based on Expected Values . Demography , 3 , 450 – 461 . 10.2307/2060170 Sheps Mindel C. ( 1969 ). Simulation Methods and the Use...

... – 58 . Ranganathan H. N. ( 1965 ). Recent Trends in Birth Order Statistics of Poona City . Population Review (Madras) , 9 , 82 – 85 . Sheps Mindel C. ( 1966 ). Applications of Probability Models to the Study of Patterns of Human Reproduction . In Mindel C. Sheps...