Slightly more births at full moon
A popular belief holds that the number of births highly increases when the moon is full. To test this belief, we use a 50-year data set of 38.7 million births in France. The signal includes quasi-periodic and discrete components that need to be subtracted. This is done using a non-linear Gaussian le...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Académie des sciences
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Comptes Rendus. Mathématique |
| Online Access: | https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.5802/crmath.223/ |