Re-examining the associations between family backgrounds and children's cognitive developments in early ages

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1243-1252

  Tu, Yu Kang ^a,b   Law, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Millennium Cohort; Galton; Regression to the mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956978838     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430902981363     Document Type: Article

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