The Standard Error of Regressions

Journal of Economic Literature

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-114

  Mccloskey, Deirdre N ^a   Ziliak, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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