Volume 50 - Article 41 | Pages 1223–1246
Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death
By Dmitri Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir Shkolnikov
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