Ecological Regression and Voting Rights

Evaluation Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 673-711

  Freedman, David A ^a   Klein, Stephen P ^a   Sacks, Jerome ^a   Smyth, Charles A ^a   Everett, Charles G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84973806724     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9101500602     Document Type: Article

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