Estimating the likelihood of fallacious ecological inference: Linear ecological regression in the presence of context effects

Political Geography

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 675-690

  Owen, Guillermo ^a   Grofman, Bernard ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0013493864     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(96)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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