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Romeu, J.L. (2008). Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis: Enhancing Human Rights Work. In: Asher, J., Banks, D., Scheuren, F.J. (eds) Statistical Methods for Human Rights. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72837-7_4

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