Fitting Age-Period-Cohort Models Using the Intrinsic Estimator: Assumptions and Misapplications

Citation

Masters, Ryan K.; Powers, Daniel A.; Hummer, Robert A.; Beck, Audrey N.; Lin, Shih-Fan; & Finch, Brian Karl (2016). Fitting Age-Period-Cohort Models Using the Intrinsic Estimator: Assumptions and Misapplications. Demography, 53(4), 1253-1259. PMCID: PMC5839144

Abstract

We thank Demography’s editorial office for the opportunity to respond to te Grotenhuis et al.’s commentary regarding the methods used and the results presented in our earlier paper (Masters et al. 2014). In this response, we briefly reply to three general themes raised in the commentary: (1) the presentation and discussion of APC results, (2) the fitting of full APC models to data for which a simpler model holds, and (3) the variation in the estimated age, period, and cohort coefficients produced by the intrinsic estimator (IE) (i.e., the “nonuniqueness property” of the IE, as referred to by Pelzer et al. (2015)).

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0481-y

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2016

Journal Title

Demography

Author(s)

Masters, Ryan K.
Powers, Daniel A.
Hummer, Robert A.
Beck, Audrey N.
Lin, Shih-Fan
Finch, Brian Karl

PMCID

PMC5839144

ORCiD

Hummer - 0000-0003-3058-6383