Confounding and control

Demographic Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2007, Pages 97-120

  Wunsch, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confounding; Control; Structural modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847142860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.16.4     Document Type: Article

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