Recent european fertility patterns: Fitting curves to ‘distorted’ distributions

Population Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-329

  Chandola, T ^a   Coleman, D A ^a   Hiorns, R W ^a  

^a Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FERTILITY; MODELING;

ARTICLE; EUROPE; FERTILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EUROPE; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033407538     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324720308089     Document Type: Article

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