Missing, biased, and unrepresentative: The quantitative analysis of multisource biographical data

Historical Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 166-176

  Cohen, Gidon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Communist party; Gender; Missing data; Prosopography

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; POLITICAL HISTORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0038137282     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440209601206     Document Type: Article

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