Abstract

A least-squares analysis of the various estimates of the population of London during the seventeenth century discloses the probable degree of error in the work of William Petty and other early demographers. A new “average” population is calculated and the regression equation given which best satisfies the contemporary estimates.

Seventeenth Century, Plague, Crude Death Rate, Priate Reference, 19th CentUl
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