Coordinate-free analysis of trends in British social mobility

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1681-1691

  Klimova, Anna ^a   Rudas, Tamás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

exponential family; maximum likelihood estimate; multiplicative model; product multinomial sampling; social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862588533     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.663348     Document Type: Article

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