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S. J. Pocock, D. G. Cook, A. G. Shaper, Analysing Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Mortality: Methods and Results, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 145, No. 3 (1982), pp. 313-341
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