London parochial burial records from 1563 to 1665 indicate higher plague death rates for males than females: Some possible demographic and social explanations

• Xavier Didelot ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xavier Didelot, Charles Morris Evans

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1885-500X

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• Charles Morris Evans

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xavier Didelot, Charles Morris Evans

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.m.evans@bham.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of History, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9743-5075

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