Analysis of transition data by the minimum-chi-square method: An application to welfare spells in Belgium

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 392-405

  Cockx, Bart L W ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MINIMUM-CHI-SQUARE; WELFARE TURNOVER;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0031411562     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465300556986     Document Type: Article

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