Height and the Normal Distribution: Evidence from Italian Military Data.
Researchers modeling historical heights have typically relied on the restrictive assumption of a normal distribution, only the mean of which is affected by age, income, nutrition, disease, and similar influences. To avoid these restrictive assumptions, we develop a new semiparametric approach in whi...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
February 2009
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