Analysis of the threshold values of semantic structure analysis in identifying causal relationships

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1543-1551

  Shieh, Jiunn I ^a   Wu, Hsin Hung ^b   Liu, Hsiang Chuan ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Causal relationship; Medical care service quality; Monte Carlo simulation; Semantic structure analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893938834     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2012.735322     Document Type: Article

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