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Abstract:
"Several attempts have been made in the past at studying trends in rural-urban migration through the use of probability models.... In this paper, an alternative method (based on maximum likelihood) of estimating the parameters of the inflated geometric distribution is proposed.... Section 2 describes the model. The method of estimating the parameters and the associated variance-covariance matrix is contained in section 3. Section 4 gives an illustrative example. Section 5 contains the conclusion." Data are from a 1978 survey conducted in three types of villages in India.
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