MPIDR Working Paper

Correcting historical mortality rate bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies

Chong, M., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Alexander, M. J., Zagheni, E.
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005, 73 pages.
Rostock, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (January 2022)
Revised July 2024 (Former title: Identifying and correcting bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies)
Open Access
Keywords: Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, USA, bias, genealogy, mortality, statistics
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