Partisan Politics at Work: Sampling and the 2000 Census

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 795-799

  Anderson, Margo ^a   Fienberg, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84967551855     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/420917     Document Type: Article

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