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Theory and Method

Dispersion of Categorical Variables and Penalty Functions: Derivation, Estimation, and Comparability

Zvi Gilula Department of Statistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel; Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, IL, 60637
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Shelby J. Haberman Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208
Pages 1447-1452 | Received 01 Jan 1994, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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