An application of Mean-Covariance Structure Models for the analysis of group lending behavior

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 863-868

  Paxton, Julia ^a   Thraen, Cameron ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group lending; Latent variables; Mean and covariance structure models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347603839     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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