A comparison of modelling strategies for value-added analyses of educational data

Computational Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-116

  Spencer, Neil H ^a   Fielding, Antony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endogeneity; Gibbs Sampling; Hierarchical Modelling; Iterative Mgeneralized Least Squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036004883     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001800200093     Document Type: Article

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