Modeling social processes: Some lessons from sports

Sociological Forum

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-35

  Lieberson, Stanley ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal models; Explanation; Probabilistic thinking; Sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041156962     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024600505458     Document Type: Article

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