Quality of age reporting: Extension and application of the modified Whipple's index

Population

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-742

  Spoorenberg, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE DETERMINATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; TESTING METHOD;

AFRICA; ASIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; INDIA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 42549147472     PISSN: 16342941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/pope.704.0729     Document Type: Article

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