Analysis of stopout behavior at a public research university: The multi-spell discrete-time approach

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 905-934

  Johnson, Iryna Y ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Event history modeling; Multi spell discrete time logit model; Stopout

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749673402     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-006-9020-9     Document Type: Article

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