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Recruiting Asian-American Adolescents for Behavioral Surveys

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Weiss, J.W., Weiss, D.J. Recruiting Asian-American Adolescents for Behavioral Surveys. Journal of Child and Family Studies 11, 143–149 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015132107565

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