Simple methods for ecological inference in 2×2 tables

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

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 175-192

  Chambers, R L ^a   Steel, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological bias; Goodman regression; Grouped data; Local linear smoothing; Method of bounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648984     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00195     Document Type: Article

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