Components of a Difference Between Two Rates*

Abstract

Expanded version of a paper read at the annual meeting of the American Statistical Association held in Chicago, December 27–30, 1952. The preparation of this manuscript was sponsored jointly by the Population Research and Training Center, University of Chicago, and Scripps Foundation, Miami University—the latter through funds provided by the Rockefeller Foundation for the study of population distribution. The author is indebted to Philip M. Hauser, Donald J. Bogue, O. Dudley Duncan, Beverly Duncan and J. J. Feldman for a careful reading of the paper and many suggestive comments and criticisms. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.