Spatial variation in teenage conceptions in south and west England

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 273-289

  Diamond, Ian ^a   Clements, Steve ^b   Stone, Nicole ^b   Ingham, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Deprivation indices; Logistic regression; Multilevel models; Poisson models; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473008     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00135     Document Type: Article

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