Review Essay: Mathematics Matters: On the Absence of Mathematical Models in Quantitative Sociology

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-78

  Backman, Olof ^a   Edling, Christofer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0033426518     PISSN: 00016993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000169939904200105     Document Type: Review

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