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Birth Order and the Presence of Disease: A Comment on the Greenwood‐Yule Method
Author(s) -
Barker D. J. P.,
Record R. G.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985231
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , birth order , mathematical economics , mathematics , demography , sociology , economics , population , finance
Summary Attention is drawn to a defect of the Greenwood–Yule method of examining the relationship between the presence of disease and birth order. An alternative method is described and is demonstrated on data obtained in a study of subnormal intelligence.
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