*NEW THREAD* This week we’ll be featuring the top 5 most impactful articles published in @RSeriesa in 2020 as captured by @altmetric
We’ll feature one paper per day in reverse order tarting by our 5th place
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We’ll feature one paper per day in reverse order tarting by our 5th place
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Top 5th most impactful paper: Ellison et al: doi.org/10.1111/rssa.1…
*CONTEXT* Fertility projections are a key determinant of population forecasts, which are widely used by government policy makers and planners
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*CONTEXT* Fertility projections are a key determinant of population forecasts, which are widely used by government policy makers and planners
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*AIM* Propose an intuitive and transparent hierarchical #Bayesian model to forecast cohort fertility
*METHOD* Use of hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods and a data set from the human fertility database
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*METHOD* Use of hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods and a data set from the human fertility database
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*FINDINGS* Support the position that hierarchical #Bayesian modelling is at the forefront of population forecasting methods
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