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Willcox, demographer and statistician, founded the statistical research office in the U.S. Census Office, and was a major innovator in demographic analysis and apportionment theory and methodology in the United States.
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For his papers see the Walter Willcox Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Willcox, Walter (1933). Introduction to the Vital Statistics of the United States, 1900 to 1930. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
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Anderson, M.J. (2001). Walter Francis Willcox. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_56
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