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04 April 2025 | research article

Household living arrangements and disparities in hardship

John Iceland, Jaehoon Cho

Volume: 52 Article ID: 20
Pages: 589–634

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Tempo effects in period TFR: Inspecting the role of shape and scale variations in a cohort model

Stefano Mazzuco, Lucia Zanotto

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25 March 2025 | descriptive finding

Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States

Hui Zheng, Yoonyoung Choi, Taehyun Ethan Kim

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Editorial on p-values

23 October 2022

In the last few years, the American Statistical Association has published position statements on the correct use and interpretation of p-values and on avoiding possible traps in applied statistical work. As much of empirical research in demography relies on statistical methods, in order to meet the challenge, Demographic Research has now also issued editorial guidance on our expectations regarding statistical rigour and replicability in empirical work. Please find the full editorial here:
demographic-research.org/…/vol41/32