A computer content analysis approach to measuring social distance in residential organizations for older people

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-180

  McTavish, Donald G ^a   Litkowski, Kenneth C ^b   Schrader, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CL Research

^c AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing; Content analysis; MCCA; Semantic analysis; Social distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744443631     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089443939701500205     Document Type: Article

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