Multilevel models for repeated binary outcomes: Attitudes and voting over the electoral cycle

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-62

  Yang, Min ^a   Goldstein, Harvey ^a   Heath, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Longitudinal binary data; Multilevel; Multivariate multilevel model; Political attitudes; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034360711     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00156     Document Type: Article

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