Common framework for ecological inference in epidemiology, political science, and sociology

Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 302-332

  Salway, Ruth ^a   Wakefield, Jonathan ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 84926083028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511510595.015     Document Type: Chapter

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