Design priorities and disciplinary perspectives: The case of the US National Children's Study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 465-480

  Michael, Robert T ^a   O'Muircheartaigh, Colm A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Design based inference; Probability sampling; Research design; Response rates; US National Children's Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549135639     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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