Decomposing Inequality and Obtaining Marginal Effects
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1536-867X,1536-8734
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0600600107