Multichannel Sequence Analysis Applied To Social Science Data

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-38

  Gauthier, Jacques Antoine ^a   Widmer, Eric D ^b   Bucher, Philipp ^c   Notredame, Cédric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

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EID: 78449310312     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9531.2010.01227.x     Document Type: Article

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