title: Estimating child mortality and modelling its age pattern for India.
abstract: "Using data [for India] on proportions of children dead...estimates of infant and child mortality are...obtained by Sullivan and Trussell modifications of [the] Brass basic method.  The estimate of child survivorship function derived after logit smoothing appears to be more reliable than that obtained by the Census Actuary.  The age pattern of childhood mortality is suitably modelled by [a] Weibull function defining the probability of surviving from birth to a specified age and involving two parameters of level and shape.  A recently developed linearization procedure based on [a] graphical approach is adopted for estimating the parameters of the function."
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D007194:India; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008136:Longevity; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D015996:Survival Rate
keywords: Age Factors; Asia; Brass Technic; Child Mortality; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Estimation Technics; Evaluation; India; Infant Mortality; Length Of Life; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Southern Asia; Survivorship