Ecological inference for 2 × 2 tables

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 385-425

  Wakefield, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variables; Contextual effects; Ecological fallacy; Ecological regression; Extended hypergeometric distribution; Hierarchical models; Identifiability; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Method of bounds; Missing data; Neighbourhood model

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042840118     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2004.02046_1.x     Document Type: Article

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