Adding a timing light to the "Tool Box"

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-114

  DesJardins, Stephen L ^a   McCall, Brian P ^b   Ahlburg, Dennis A ^b   Moye, Melinda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Event history modeling; Hazard rate; Time varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141625834     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013022201296     Document Type: Article

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