Model misspecification: Why aggregation of offenses in federal sentencing equations is problematic

Criminology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1449-1456

  Albonetti, Celesta A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Ctr for Criminol/Sociolegal Studs   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal sentencing equations; Model misspecification; Tobit

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642587208     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb01027.x     Document Type: Review

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