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FReDA Policy BriefLoneliness: Especially younger people are feeling increasingly lonely

In the last five years, the feeling of loneliness has increased in Germany. Today, one in three people between the ages of 18 and 53 feels lonely at least some of the time – including many younger people under 30, as new BiB analyses show.

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Miscellaneous PublicationsSplitting of aggregated medical and demographic data

Michalski, Anatoli I.; Gorlishchev, Vasily P.; Jdanov, Dmitri, A.; Grigoriev, Pavel (2017)

Moscow, Russia, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 420–424

It is common in medical statistics and in demography to use data aggregated in 5-year or 10-year age groups. More detailed information by 1-year age groups are needed for precise estimations and projections. We describe two approaches for grouped data splitting. One uses a constrained quadratic optimization technique and the other builds an artificial neural net.

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