Some frontiers in social science

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5782, 2006, Pages 1898-1900

  Butz, William P ^a   Torrey, Barbara Boyle ^a  

^a Population Reference Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE; CROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION; LONGITUDINAL DATA;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INFORMATION SYSTEM; INNOVATION; LABORATORY METHOD; STATISTICAL CONCEPT;

ACCURACY; BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STATISTICS;

EID: 33745601391     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130121     Document Type: Review

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