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... Percentage of population 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 Percentage of forenames ordered by descending count means that the curve we have slightly over - estimates the skewness of the distribution but for values ...
... Percentage of population 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 Percentage of forenames ordered by descending count means that the curve we have slightly over - estimates the skewness of the distribution but for values ...
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... Percentage of population 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 Percentage of surnames in descending count order This curve shows a much gentler rise than the forenames curves and reaches 90 percent with just ...
... Percentage of population 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 Percentage of surnames in descending count order This curve shows a much gentler rise than the forenames curves and reaches 90 percent with just ...
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... percentages in table 1 shows this expectation was wrong . During the first half of the twentieth century , the percentage of those given the most common names was actually slowing increasing . The 1940s for women and the 1950s for men ...
... percentages in table 1 shows this expectation was wrong . During the first half of the twentieth century , the percentage of those given the most common names was actually slowing increasing . The 1940s for women and the 1950s for men ...
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American Indian placenames in the United States | 15 |
the derivation and referent of an old puzzle | 39 |
Placenames derived from Chinook Jargon in the state | 57 |
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