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Statistical Analysis of Choice Experiments and Surveys
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Measures of households' past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions ...
Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-12)
This paper discusses problems that are common to both the epidemiologic risk-factor approach and the demographic variable-based approach to studying population health. We argue that there is a shared reluctance to move ...
Epidemiology of menstrual disorders in developing countries: a systematic review
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2004-01)
Gender and Aging in the Developing World: Where Are the Men?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-12)
Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
A false-discovery-rate-based loss framework for selection of interactions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-05-20)
Interaction effects have been consistently found important in explaining the variation in outcomes in many scientific research fields. Yet, in practice, variable selection including interactions is complicated due to the ...
Conjoint Developmental Trajectories of Young Adult Substance Use
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-05)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, this essay takes ...