Multicollinearity and model misspecification

Sociological Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 627-649

  Winship, Christopher ^a   Western, Bruce ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Model misspecification; Multicollinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044161681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23306696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15195/v3.a27     Document Type: Article

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