Lessons in disguise: Multivariate predictive mistakes in collective choice models

Public Choice

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 719-737

  Desmarais, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance; Collective choice; Correlation; Diagnostic; Discrete choice; Interdependence; Prediction; Supreme Court

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855165283     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9767-1     Document Type: Article

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