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Science 14 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5451, pp. 239 - 240
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5451.239
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STATISTICS:
Do We Have to Count One by One?

A review by Thomas R. Belin

Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America
Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1999. 329 pp. $32.50. ISBN 0-87154-256-0.

Anderson and Fieberg provide a richly informative account of the historical and scientific context of the current controversy surrounding census-taking in the United States.
The author is in the Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 51-267, UCLA Center for Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA. E-mail: tbelin{at}mednet.ucla.edu

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