Seven deadly sins of contemporary quantitative political analysis

Journal of Peace Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 287-300

  Schrodt, Philip A ^a  

^a Parus Analytical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian approaches; political analysis; quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897782017     PISSN: 00223433     EISSN: 14603578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022343313499597     Document Type: Article

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