A multilevel modelling approach to measuring changing patterns of ethnic composition and segregation among London secondary schools, 2001-2010

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 405-424

  Leckie, George ^a   Goldstein, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic composition; Ethnic segregation; Multilevel models; Multinomial logistic regression; Segregation indices; Variance functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920950475     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12066     Document Type: Article

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