High-Fertility Observations
The Poisson model predicted far fewer women with 15 or more children than were observed. The nine women with the most children lived shorter lives on average than the full sample. The prominent negative result depends strongly on a small n…
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The Poisson model predicted far fewer women with 15 or more children than were observed. The nine women with the most children lived shorter lives on average than the full sample. The prominent negative result depends strongly on a small number of very high-fertility women born in earlier centuries. The nine highest-fertility women came from much earlier birth cohorts than the full sample. The peerage sample included one woman with 18 children.