Temporal pattern in number of staff on sick leave: The effect of downsizing

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 355-367

  Kauermann, Göran ^a   Ortlieb, Renate ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Employee absenteeism; Generalized linear mixed models; Longitudinal data; P splines; Penalized likelihood; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342551536     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-9876.2003.05193.x     Document Type: Article

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