Mortality tempo-adjustment: An empirical application

Demographic Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Luy, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

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EID: 33845902589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.2     Document Type: Article

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