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Collabra: Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Nickerson, Carol A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Gene regulation; Regression analysis; Social genomics; Statistical models; Suppression; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044714789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24747394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/collabra.81     Document Type: Article

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