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Optimal Grouping of Income Distribution Data

B. B. Aghevli College of Statistics and Informatics, Tehran
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F. Mehran International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland
Pages 22-26 | Received 01 Feb 1979, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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