Mortality History and the Misleading Mean

Historical Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 56-58

  Johansson, S Ryan ^a   Kasakoff, Alice B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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ARTICLE; EUROPE; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

EUROPE; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; METHODS; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0008326806     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440009598949     Document Type: Article

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