Breakthrough Measuring Neighborhoods

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-152

  Bezruczko, Nikolaus ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCHOOLS; WELFARE FUNDS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WAGES;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POVERTY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CHICAGO; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0037805709     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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