On estimators for truncated height samples

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-56

  Jacobs, Jan ^a   Katzur, Tomek ^a   Tassenaar, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

19th century; Anthropometric history; Drenthe; Maximum likelihood; Normality assumption; Physical stature; The Netherlands; Truncated distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; ECONOMICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 39049102563     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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