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在没有人口普查的情况下估计人口

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Map of High-Resolution Gridded Population Estimates around Lagos, Nigeria

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一项研究发现，一个应用于尼日利亚的每100米的网格单元的人口的贝叶斯建模框架，能够在没有被一个微观人口调查没有覆盖的区域以每公顷67人的总误差率估计每个部分的人口；这些结果提示，类似的框架可能有能力在常规人口调查不可行的资源贫乏或者受冲突影响的地区估计人口。

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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