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Model Bourgeois-Pichata w badaniach demograficzno-historycznych
The Bourgeois-Pichat Model in Demographic-Historical Research

Author(s): Bartosz Ogórek
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Economic history, Political history, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: infant mortality; biometric model; source criticism

Summary/Abstract: The article is intended to present the essence of the so-called biometric model of infant mortality, which is also named the Bourgeois-Pichat model after its creator. The other aim is to discuss the computational procedure of the model and its three most important properties.

  • Issue Year: 38/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 136-146
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish