Modeling repeatable events using discrete-time data: Predicting marital dissolution

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 525-540

  Teachman, Jay ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divorce; Fixed effects; Multilevel models; Random effects; Repeatable events; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956218347     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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