Biometric modeling n the study of infant mortality: Evidence from nineteenth-century sweden

Historical Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 53-64

  Lynch, Katherine A ^a   Greenhouse, Joel B ^a   Brändström, Anders ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELLING APPROACH; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0031825452     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615449809601188     Document Type: Article

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