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Counting the uncounted: How many were killed in Guatemala, 1978-1995?
Nils Lid Hjort
In various application domains, there is a certain `null cell', inside a multinomial setup, where observations are recorded for the other cells, but where one cannot count the numb…
Recent advances in statistical methodology applied to the Hjort liver index time series (1859-2012) and associated influential factors
Gudmund H. Hermansen, Nils Lid Hjort, Olav S. Kjesbu
Certain recent advances in statistical methodology have promising potential for fruitful use in general biology and the fisheries sciences. This paper reviews and discusses some of…
And Quiet Does Not Flow the Don: Statistical Analysis of a Quarrel Between Nobel Prize Laureates
Nils Lid Hjort
The Nobel Prize in literature 1965 was awarded Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), for the epic novel Tikhij Don about Cossack life and the birth of a new Soviet society (And Quiet Flow…
Overdispersed and Markovian Children
Nils Lid Hjort
Take a look around you -- in your family, your school or workplace, in the streets, and you see boys & girls in about equal proportion, and without any easily visible gender patter…