Identifying ancestry: The reliability of ancestral identification in the United States by self, proxy, interviewer, and funeral director

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-80

  Hahn, Robert A ^a   Truman, Benedict I ^a   Barker, Nancy D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; ethnicity; race; reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0030043485     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199601000-00013     Document Type: Article

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