Ecological Inference from Goodman to King

Historical Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 101-126

  Kousser, J Morgan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological inference; Ecological regression; Neighborhood models; Voting rights

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035709716     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440109598976     Document Type: Article

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