title: Age patterns of marital fertility:  revising the Coale-Trussell method.
abstract: "This article revises the Coale-Trussell method for analyzing data from the World Fertility Survey by proposing and testing alternative log-linear and log-multiplicative models.  The models, in one form or another, represent the structural constraint underlying the Coale-Trussell method on the variation in the age pattern of human fertility.  With a Poisson distribution assumption for the number of births, several parameters of the models are simultaneously estimated via maximum likelihood.  It is shown that the new approach can be adopted whenever fertility limitation is compared across multiple populations or subpopulations."
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Pimentel
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001723:Birth Rate; D003267:Contraception; D003710:Demography; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D008423:Maternal Age; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research
keywords: Age Factors; Age Specific Fertility Rate; Birth Rate; Comparative Studies; Contraception; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Family Planning; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Fertility Rate; Marital Fertility; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Studies; World