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Mythical and Observable Trends in Human Sex Ratio at Birth

2020-04-24

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The human sex ratio at birth (SRB) is defined as the ratio between the number of newborn boys to the total number of newborns per time unit. It is, typically, slightly greater than (more boys than girls) and fluctuates over time. In this study, we sought to “myth-check” previously reported associations (and test new hypotheses) using variants of mixed-effect regression analyses and time-series models on two very...

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Literature Corpus work: 563a9161-71ec-51da-83ce-fbe1e73a388f
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.21.054445

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