Theory Construction, Model Building, and Model Selection

The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods: Volume 1: Foundations

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-104

  Jaccard, James ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

modeling; parameter estimation; Theory; theory construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956769796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199934874.013.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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