Why simple regression models work so well describing 'risk behaviors' in the USA

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 719-734

  Wallace, R ^a   Fullilove, R ^b  

^a Public Interest Scientific Consulting Service Inc   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Sch of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARGINALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN SOCIETY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032997794     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a310719     Document Type: Article

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