Modelling general patterns of digit preference

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-401

  Camarda, Carlo G ^a   Eilers, Paul H C ^b,c   Gampe, Jutta ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composite link model digit preference; L1 penalty; Penalized likelihood; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349200233     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0800800404     Document Type: Article

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