I’m outa here after this last reply, you can take all the credit you deserve or need, no one is disputing where the information came from. It’s what it is.
And MAE just happens to be an ACRONYM for Mean Absolute Error which is a term that relates somehow to statistics, which is what birth/death records are... and it’s just ambiguous enough that it’s useful, it cancells out a duplicate entry.
Without the MAE the total births for 1960-1964 would have included OBADO DUPLICATE - AS A BIRTH.
Those are records, not stats. If there are no masculine entries with that acronym, then it cannot possibly mean “Mean Absolute Error”.
Not bustin your chops, but I did not find any masculine entries with MAE.
If you know anything of me and my research, you know I take NO credit for anything. The credit goes to the little group that I worked with. I just need you to understand that I was very hands on in this material that you are opining on. I would rather things are kept sans confusion.
Birth/death records are records. Statistical analysis of those records may be done, the records are not in and of themselves statistics. A duplicate record would not be marked “mean absolute error”. Mean absolute error measures the average magnitude of errors in a set of forecasts/estimates are from actual values.
MAE is a name, like all the other names listed.