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Background. The distribution of birth weights has been extensively investigated. A common result of these studies is that the distributions differ from the Gaussian. A standard attempt has been to split the distribution into two components: a main distribution assumed to be normal and the other a small correction component. Studies have also shown...
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... birth data are derived from official available birth certificates from the Åland Islands (cf. Figure 1 and [13]) for over one century , and i.a. temporal trends can be considered. ...
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... In this study, the Åland Islands are subdivided into 13 regions according to the 16 parishes (Figure 1). Temporarily the data set of birth weights in Åland in 1885-1998 is heterogeneously distributed. ...
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