Commentary: 'Is the social world flat? W.S. Robinson and the ecologic fallacy'

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 368-370

  Firebaugh, Glenn ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 64349091072     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn355     Document Type: Note

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