Ecometrics: Toward a science of assessing ecological settings, with application to the systematic social observation of neighborhoods

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-41

  Raudenbush, Stephen W ^a   Sampson, Robert J ^a  

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EID: 0033426640     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0081-1750.00059     Document Type: Article

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