Misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, and the problematic choice of a specific instance in which the IE should never be applied

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¹ Department of Sociology, Lineberger Cancer Center, and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3210, USA, yangy@unc.edu.

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Yang Claire Yang et al. Demography. 2013 Dec.

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doi: 10.1007/s13524-013-0254-9.

¹ Department of Sociology, Lineberger Cancer Center, and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3210, USA, yangy@unc.edu.

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Assessing validity and application scope of the intrinsic estimator approach to the age-period-cohort problem.
Luo L. Luo L. Demography. 2013 Dec;50(6):1945-67. doi: 10.1007/s13524-013-0243-z. Demography. 2013. PMID: 24072610 Free PMC article.

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