Research Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2013
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page No. 215 - 220

Discrete Time Survival Analysis of Age at First Pregnancy Among Nigerian Women

Authors : O.M. Odeniya, A.A. Abiodun and B.A. Oyejola

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