Bill Brass
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Brass, William [Bill] , demographer and statistician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Brass was a Scottish demographer. He developed indirect methods for estimating mortality and fertility in populations with inaccurate or incomplete data, often dubbed "Brass methods" after him.
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- Methods for estimating fertility and mortality from limited and defective data. (1975) (374)
- Estimating maternal mortality: the sisterhood method. (1989) (269)
- Demography of Tropical Africa (1968) (260)
- Perspectives in Population Prediction: Illustrated by the Statistics of England and Wales (1974) (123)
- Population dynamics of Kenya. (1993) (105)
- Brief assessment of the mental state in geriatric domiciliary practice. The usefulness of the mental status questionnaire. (1973) (100)
- Biological Aspects of Demography. (1971) (89)
- Methods of Analysis and Estimation (1977) (87)
- Multiple disorders in the elderly. A clinical and statistical study. (1962) (78)
- Demographic Data Analysis in Less Developed Countries: 1946-1996 (1996) (71)
- Estimating adult mortality from orphanhood. (1973) (70)
- The distribution of births in human populations. (1958) (65)
- SIMPLIFIED METHODS OF FITTING THE TRUNCATED NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION (1958) (64)
- The variability of sickle-cell rates in the tribes of Kenya and the Southern Sudan. (1954) (64)
- A Study of Contemporary Ghana. (1967) (60)
- The clinical significance of the complement fixation test in thyrotoxicosis. (1962) (56)
- Mortality Models and Their Uses in Demography (1971) (55)
- Hip dysplasia in dogs (1989) (49)
- The graduation of fertility distributions by polynomial functions (1960) (41)
- The distribution of births in human populations in rural Taiwan (1958) (37)
- Censored cohort parity progression ratios from birth histories. (1983) (35)
- The time location of reports of survivorship: estimates for maternal and paternal orphanhood and the ever-widowed (1981) (33)
- Indirect estimation of maternal mortality: the sisterhood method. (1988) (33)
- Childhood mortality estimated from reports on previous births given by mothers at the time of a maternity: preceding-births technique. (1984) (31)
- Treatment of pseudopregnancy in the bitch with cabergoline, an ergoline derivative (1988) (28)
- Clinical Trial of Inhaled Ergotamine Tartrate in Migraine (1964) (26)
- CHAPTER 3. Methods of Analysis and Estimation (1968) (25)
- The relational Gompertz model of fertility by age of woman (1980) (23)
- Sickling and Malaria (1956) (20)
- The use of the relational Gompertz model to estimate fertility (1981) (20)
- Measurement problems in the analysis of linkages between fertility and child mortality. (1978) (18)
- Two Surveys to Investigate the Relation of Sickle-cell Trait and Malaria (1955) (18)
- Studies in the demography of Pakistan (1969) (18)
- Systematic and chance components in fertility measurement. (1974) (17)
- An Analysis of Parity-Dependent Fertility Falls in Tropical Africa (1997) (15)
- Population projections for planning and policy (1978) (14)
- A critique of methods for estimating population growth in countries with limited data. (1971) (13)
- Sickle-cell disease of Africans in Kenya. (1951) (13)
- Childhood mortality estimated from reports on previous births given by mothers at the time of a maternity: II. Adapted multiplying factor technique. (1985) (11)
- The estimation of infant mortality from the proportions dying among births in the past 24 months (2005) (11)
- Screening procedures for detecting errors in maternity history data (1980) (11)
- ESTIMATING MATERNAL MORTALITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1988) (10)
- Assessment of the validity of fertility trend estimates from maternity histories (1980) (9)
- Population Growth and the Brain Drain (1970) (8)
- The derivation of fertility and reproduction rates from restricted data on reproductive histories. (1953) (8)
- The Analysis of Maternity Histories. (1992) (7)
- Notes on empirical mortality models (1977) (7)
- People and change (1982) (6)
- CHAPTER 7. The Demography of French-Speaking Territories Covered by Special Sample Inquiries: Upper Volta, Dahomey, Guinea, North Cameroon, and Other Areas (1968) (6)
- A procedure for comparing mortality measures calculated from intercensal survival with the corresponding estimates from registered deaths. (1979) (5)
- The interrelation between genetics and the social sciences (1970) (5)
- Clinical Trial of Methyl Cysteine Hydrochloride in Chronic Bronchitis (1962) (5)
- Indirect methods of estimating mortality illustrated by application to Middle East and North African data (1976) (5)
- Preliminary report on dental fluorosis in Kenya European children. (1953) (5)
- Appendix A: Note on Brass Method of Fertility Estimation (1968) (4)
- [Etiology and pathogenesis of endocardiosis and endocarditis in dogs. I. Introduction and clinical findings]. (1973) (4)
- Impact of the family planning programme on fertility in Mauritius. (1976) (4)
- Exploratory demographic analysis of imperfect maternity histories to determine levels and trends of fertility. (1992) (4)
- [Field performance of the sisterhood method for measuring maternal mortality]. (1988) (4)
- [The occurrence of mucosal-disease-like diseases in zoo ruminants]. (1966) (4)
- The Third Child a Study in the Prediction of Fertility (1964) (4)
- Survival rates of African askaris suffering from tuberculosis. (1955) (4)
- Policies for the reduction of mortality differentials. (1980) (3)
- Levels, trends and patterns of adult mortality in China over twenty five years. (1989) (3)
- [General anesthesia in dogs and cats]. (1975) (3)
- [Etiology and pathogenesis of endocardiosis and endocarditis in dogs. V. Synopsis of results]. (1973) (3)
- Demography and economics (1970) (3)
- The estimation of fertility rates from ratios of total to first births (1954) (3)
- Sickle-cell Rates in Kenya and the Southern Sudan (1954) (3)
- [A case of Ebstein's anomaly in a lion]. (1969) (2)
- Estimating maternal mortality in developing countries [letter] (1988) (2)
- Sickling in an African Community (1956) (2)
- Evidence of fertility fall in Pakistan through family limitation. (1994) (2)
- Evaluation of birth and death registration using age distributions and child survivorship data. (1979) (2)
- The measurement of fertility and child mortality to investigate their relationships in studies of aggregate and family data. (1975) (2)
- Assessing the demographic effect of a family planning programme. (1970) (1)
- Demography of an Under-Develped Territory (1958) (1)
- Problems in the measurement of child mortality where statistical systems are limited. (1987) (1)
- Corrected Age Data of the 1931 Indian Census. (1969) (1)
- Family Planning (1966) (1)
- Response to Trussel and Rodriguez - A Note on the Sisterhood Estimator of Maternal Mortality (1990) (1)
- Family planning. The multiplication of man. (1966) (1)
- Sickling and Malaria (1954) (1)
- Report of the Population Growth Estimation Experiment. (1970) (1)
- The estimation of fertility and mortality from defective vital registration records. (1975) (1)
- [Experiences with delta 1-chlormadinoacetate in epilepsy of dogs]. (1971) (1)
- Programme of Analysis of Mortality Trends and Levels: Report of a Joint U.N./W.H.O. Meeting. (1971) (0)
- Measurement of death registration completeness using the growth balance procedure applied to data from India. (1980) (0)
- [The "craniomandibular osteopathy" in the dog]. (1967) (0)
- [Relative (extravalvular) mitral insufficiency in packs of hounds]. (1972) (0)
- General surgery for veterinary surgeons and students. (1975) (0)
- [Clinical features and encephalogram of hydrocephalus internus in the dog]. (1971) (0)
- Sickling and Malaria (1955) (0)
- Occupational Prognosis (1964) (0)
- The Population Commission and IUSSP. (1986) (0)
- [Examination of therapeutic measures: the conservative treatment of Dachshund paralysis]. (1967) (0)
- Statistics for Students Of the Natural and Social Sciences (1963) (0)
- Review: The Third Child a Study in the Prediction of Fertility by Charles F. Westoff, Robert G. Potter, and Philip C. Sagi (1964) (0)
- More on the Art of Talking About Science (1968) (0)
- [Experimental studies on connective tissue metabolism in dogs under different management and feeding conditions, with special reference to endocardiosis]. (1982) (0)
- On technical assistance in the field of family planning. [Abstract]. (1966) (0)
- [Placement of permanent cannulas into the dog's colon]. (1981) (0)
- A note on the sisterhood estimator of maternal mortality. Response. (1990) (0)
- [Hormone levels and liver and connective tissue metabolism after ACTH loading in dogs]. (1977) (0)
- Published Statistical Sources Used in this Volume (1968) (0)
- Ten best books in … medical demography (1986) (0)
- [Epilepsy in dogs. Clinical and morphological reflections]. (1975) (0)
- Population in African Development, Vols. 1 & 2. (1977) (0)
- Appendix: The Tabulation of Age in the 1940 Census of Mozambique (1968) (0)
- [Treatment of dermatobia larvae infestation and myiasis of the dog with a phosphoric acid ester]. (1964) (0)
- Trends in the Study of Morbidity and Mortality (1966) (0)
- [Clinical use of psychotropic drugs in pet animals as well as in zoo and wild animals]. (1983) (0)
- [Combination of steroid anesthesia with barbiturates]. (1958) (0)
- Tube feeding of adult dogs: a contribution to peri- and postoperative nutrition. (1980) (0)
- [Contribution to the treatment of canine demodicosis with organic phosphorus compounds]. (1965) (0)
- [On surgical displacement of the parotid duct for treatment of keratoconjunctivitis sicca]. (1968) (0)
- Population versus progress. (1967) (0)
- Appendix: Schedules 1 and 2 used in Demographic Inquiry (1968) (0)
- Population trends in less developed countries. (1987) (0)
- Metodos de analisis y estimacion (1970) (0)
- Erratum: Systematic and chance components in fertility measurement. (1976) (0)
- The Demography of Tropical Africa.@@@The Population of Tropical Africa. (1970) (0)
- Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae-lnduced Chronic Polyarthritis in the Dog (1981) (0)
- Introduction to the Mathematics of Population. Nathan Keyfitz. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1968. xiv + 450 pp., illus. $13.50 (1969) (0)
- [Studies on the determination of the "therapeutic spectrum" of pentobarbital-sodium for intra-abdominal and intrathoracic administration in cats]. (1964) (0)
- [Contribution to the treatment of canine demodicidosis with organic phosphorus compounds]. (1965) (0)
- Public Health and Population Change (1967) (0)
- The Evaluation of Family Planning [Abridged] (1970) (0)
- Examples of HD-examination measuring the Norberg angle (1991) (0)
- Towards a Standard Terminology in Statistics (1957) (0)
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