Replication standards for quantitative social science: Why not sociology?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-172

  Freese, Jeremy ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data archiving; Data sharing; Replication; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648943795     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124107306659     Document Type: Article

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