Estimate Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules with Bayesian Models.
rcbayes: Bayesian Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules
Date: 2021-01-30
The rcbayes
package is an R package that contains functions to calculate and estimate Rogers-Castro migration age schedules in a Bayesian framework.
rcbayes
version 0.2.0 is now available on CRAN.
rcbayes
is a spin-off package that is called on by DemoTools
, but can also be used as a stand-alone package. DemoTools
is an R package that contains simple functions often used in demographic analysis.
This project, including both the rcbayes
and DemoTools
packages, is commissioned by the UN Population Division and financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Making Family Planning Count project. rcbayes
was created in collaboration with Monica Alexander and Tim Riffe. This work is licensed under the MIT License.
Getting Started and Installation
To get started with rcbayes
we recommend taking a look at the vignette Rogers Castro Migration Models with rcbayes.
You can load the rcbayes
package as follows:
# install.packages("rcbayes")
library(rcbayes)
Note that this package requires rstan
. If you have issues installing rstan
additional information is available here, as well as from a general Google search.
Model Convergence
For additional tips in getting models to converge, we recommend taking a look at the vignette Model Convergence With mig_estimate_rc.
Citation
To cite rcbayes
in publications, please use:
Alexander M, Yeung J, and Riffe T. (2021) rcbayes: An R package of tools for Bayesian Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules URL: https://github.com/jessieyeung/rcbayes/.
@Misc{rcbayes,
Title = {rcbayes: {A}n {R} package for Bayesian Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules},
Author = {Alexander, M and Yeung, J and Riffe, T},
Year = {2021},
note = {URL:~\url{https://github.com/jessieyeung/rcbayes/}}
}