Risk behavior data analysis: Ordinal or dichotomous the choice is yours

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 465-472

  Drane, J Wanzer ^a,b   Valois, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK-TAKING; SOUTH CAROLINA; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036834867     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.26.6.7     Document Type: Article

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