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Rank uncertainty: Why the “most popular” baby names might not be the most popular
Author(s) -
Höhle Michael
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01037.x
Subject(s) - rank (graph theory) , history , genealogy , mathematics , combinatorics
Soon‐to‐be parents, souvenir mug producers and onomatologists are all equally fascinated by baby name statistics. But end‐of‐year lists of the most popular names fail to account for uncertainty says Michael Höhle . Can we trust the rankings?