A Census-Based Count of Civil War Dead

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http://www2.binghamton.edu/history/docs/Hacker_CW_dead.pdf

 

[BillO]

Ouch, you made my head hurt again.

 

[Lazy Bayou]

Interesting, thanks for posting.

 

[ExNavyPilot]

Ouch, you made my head hurt again.

I'm with BillO. Some info from the attached text and tables:

--A sophisticated demographic analysis by Daniel Scott Smith that
relied on an analysis of published aggregate data and a preliminary version of the 1860 IPUMS sample also indicated equal participation by nativity.


--The 1860 population is estimated by weighting the IPUMS samples with the PERWGT variable, cross
‐
tabulating by age group and birth region, and adjusting the resulting counts for census undercount using the weighted average age 10 ‐ 44 sectional estimates in Hacker (forthcoming).
Say whaaaaaaat?

This reads more like a masters' thesis or doctoral dissertation than an article for Civil War History magazine.

 

[cash]

I'm with BillO. Some info from the attached text and tables:

--A sophisticated demographic analysis by Daniel Scott Smith that
relied on an analysis of published aggregate data and a preliminary version of the 1860 IPUMS sample also indicated equal participation by nativity.


--The 1860 population is estimated by weighting the IPUMS samples with the PERWGT variable, cross
‐
tabulating by age group and birth region, and adjusting the resulting counts for census undercount using the weighted average age 10 ‐ 44 sectional estimates in Hacker (forthcoming).
Say whaaaaaaat?

This reads more like a masters' thesis or doctoral dissertation than an article for Civil War History magazine.

Civil War History is a professional historical journal, though.

Nice to revisit my statistics class from my master's program.