Fitting higher order Markov chains

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Volumn 5, Issue , 2000, Pages 32-55

  Langeheine, Rolf ^a   Van De Pol, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrete panel data; Heterogeneity; Markov chains; Order; Unreliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043101687     PISSN: 14328534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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