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Je met en ligne un (court) papier sur l'augmentation du nombre de naissance les jours de pleine lune, Lunar cycles and birth rates: from a full Moon to a first quarter Moon effectObjective The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the lunar cycle on the frequency of deliveries.Method This was a time series of 29,385,552 births across 470 lunar cycles that were identified from the French National Institute of Statistics from 1968 to 2005.Results Using nonparametric smoothing techniques to remove patterns, t-tests validated a significant difference in the number of births on a short window around the full Moon, stress by a significant drop after the first quarter Moon.Conclusion An analysis of 37 years of data demonstrated a small but statistically significant influence of the lunar cycle on deliveries.