What You Can and Can't Properly Do with Regression

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-487

  Berk, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 78149492036     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-010-9116-4     Document Type: Article

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