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Probabilistic Projections

Publications in refereed journals

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Raftery, A.E., N. Li, H. Ševčíková, P. Gerland, and G.K. Heilig. 2012. "Bayesian probabilistic population projections for all countries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (35):13915-13921

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Raftery, A.E., N. Li, H. Ševčíková, P. Gerland, and G.K. Heilig. 2012. "Bayesian probabilistic population projections for all countries. - Supporting information" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (35):1-7

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Alkema L, Raftery AE, Gerland P, Clark SJ, Pelletier F, Buettner T , Heilig GK: "Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries." in: Demography (2011), 48:815-839

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Alkema L, Raftery AE, Gerland P, Clark SJ, Pelletier F, Buettner T , Heilig GK: Online Resource 1 for "Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries." Demography (2011), 48:815-839

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Sevcikova H, Alkema L, Raftery AE, (2011): bayesTFR: An R Package for Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate. Journal of Statistical Software, 43(1), 1-29.

 

Informal background papers

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White Paper: Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries for the 2010 World Population Prospects.
Adrian E. Raftery, Leontine Alkema, Patrick Gerland, Samuel J. Clark, Fran cois Pelletier, Thomas Buettner, Gerhard Heilig, Nan Li, Hana Sevckova. (United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009)

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A probabilistic version of the United Nations World Population Prospects: Methodological improvements by using Bayesian fertility and mortality projections.
Gerhard K. Heilig, Thomas Buettner, Nan Li, Patrick Gerland, Francois Pelletier, Leontine Alkema, Jennifer Chunn, Hana Ševčíková, Adrian E. Raftery. EUROSTAT, Work Session on Demographic Projections, Lisbon, 23 April 2010

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Probabilistic projections of the total fertility rate.
Leontine Alkema (United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009)

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Future population trends found to be highly uncertain in Least Developed Countries.
Gerhard K. Heilig, Thomas Buettner, Nan Li, Patrick Gerland, Leontine Alkema, Jennifer Chunn, Adrian E. Raftery. Unpublished manuscript. 16 March 2010

 

PowerPoint presentations (a complete list of all presentations is available here)

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The preparation of the World Population Prospects (including the probabilistic projections of fertility)
Gerhard K. Heilig (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division)

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Projecting fertility: A history
Hania Zlotnik (United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009)

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Comparison between Bayesian approach and World Population Prospects 2008 projections of total fertility.
Patrick Gerland (United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009)

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Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries: an introduction to the new 2010 UN fertility projection model.
Leontine Alkema, Adrian Raftery, Patrick Gerland, Sam Clark, Francois Pelletier, Thomas Buettner, Gerhard Heilig (International seminar on Population Estimates and Projections: methodologies, innovations and estimation of target population applied to public policies (Session 1: Innovations in the Population Projections at the UN Population Division: Methods, advances and challenges) organized by the Latin American Population Association (ALAP) - Research Network on Population Estimates and Projections, and the National School of Statistics (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 9 -11 November 2011).

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Lessons learned and applications of the 2010 UN fertility projection methodology.
Patrick Gerland (International seminar on Population Estimates and Projections: methodologies, innovations and estimation of target population applied to public policies (Session 1: Innovations in the Population Projections at the UN Population Division: Methods, advances and challenges) organized by the Latin American Population Association (ALAP) - Research Network on Population Estimates and Projections, and the National School of Statistics (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 9 -11 November 2011).
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