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In his remarks on Gini, Henry notes that the mean fecundability of women who conceive in the first month of marriage (in Gini's notation, paper 40 above: \(\Sigma p^2_{i}n_{i1}\left./ \Sigma p_in_{i1}\right)\)may also be written \(\bar{p}(1+c^{2})\), with \(\bar{p}\) the arithmetic mean fecundability of the non-sterile population and c the coefficient of variation.
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Smith, D.P., Keyfitz, N. (2013). Theoretical Basis of Measures of Natural Fertility. In: Wachter, K., Le Bras, H. (eds) Mathematical Demography. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35858-6_34
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