Assessing Stability and Change in Criminal Offending: A Comparison of Random Effects, Semiparametric, and Fixed Effects Modeling Strategies

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-61

  Bushway, Shawn ^b   Brame, Robert ^b   Paternoster, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Change; Criminal offending; Fixed effects models; Random effects models; Semiparametric models; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033464873     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007528109907     Document Type: Review

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