Dr. StrangeLOVE, or: How i learned to stop worrying and love omitted variables

Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends: Doctrine, Verity and Fable in the Organizational and Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-106

  Meade, Adam W ^b   Behrend, Tara S ^b   Lance, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84909407047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203867266     Document Type: Chapter

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