Dealing with longitudinal attrition using logistic regression and decision tree analyses

Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 282-311

  McArdle, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84917403429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203403020     Document Type: Chapter

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