The polls - Review: Was 1996 a worse year for polls than 1948?

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 230-249

  Mitofsky, Warren J ^a  

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EID: 0040583272     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297842     Document Type: Article

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