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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2009.22.2.365

Heterogeneity Analysis of the Male Birth Ratio Data  

Lim, Hwa-Kyung (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
Song, Seuck-Heun (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
Song, Ju-Won (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.22, no.2, 2009 , pp. 365-373 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since 1990, identifying the sex of fetus and illegal abortion has brought the sex ratio imbalance at birth in Korea due to a notion of preferring a son to a daughter, socio-economic development, population policy, and so forth. Although there have been many researches such as time series analysis and region difference analysis to monitor this sex ratio imbalance, they have a defect that time and space could not be included in the analysis simultaneously. This study analyzes the sex ratio imbalance at birth, taking into account time and region at the same time. The analysis considered the numbers of male and female babies, who were born as the third or latter in their families, in 2000 and 2001 at 234 Gu / Si / Goon administrative districts. Here, we suggest a mixture model of binomial distributions, assuming heterogeneous populations. The estimation of the location parameters, weights and correlation coefficient of the mixture model is conducted by the EM algorithm, and the heterogeneity of the regions is expressed as a picture using ArcView GIS.
Keywords
Binomial data; male birth ratio; heterogeneity; mixture model; EM-algorithm;
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