Correcting Measures of Relationship between Aggregate-Level Variables for Both Unreliability and Correlated Errors: An Empirical Example

Social Science Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-234

  O'Brien, Robert M ^a  

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EID: 0040083410     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ssre.1998.0619     Document Type: Article

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