JDS

Journal of Data Science

1680-743X 1680-743X

SOSRUC

8-356

10.6339/JDS.201910_17(4).0008

Research Article

An Adjustment of Truncation and Selection Effect for Estimating Conception Rate from First Birth Interval Data

Kumar

Anup

Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, SGPGIMS Yadava

R. C.

Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University Bharti

Abhishek

Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University

17 4 756 767

A technique is proposed to estimate the conception rate using the distribution of first birth interval of recently married women. The proposed technique adjusts the truncation and selection effects present in a crosssectional data. Real data from NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 are used for illustration.

Keywords Truncation Bias Selection effect Conception Rate Heterogeneity