Determinants of the socioeconomic and spatial pattern of undernutrition by sex in India: A geoadditive semi-parametric regression approach

Statistical Modelling and Regression Structures: Festschrift in Honour of Ludwig Fahrmeir

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-179

  Belitz, Christiane ^a   Hübner, Judith ^b   Klasen, Stephan ^c   Lang, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 77955299052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2413-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

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