Estimating Measures of Multidimensional Poverty with Stata
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عنوان ژورنال: The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1536-867X,1536-8734
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1701700309