Modelling impact heterogeneity

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

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-38

  Plewis, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area based initiatives; Cluster trials; Formative evaluation; Multilevel models; Randomized controlled trials; Summative evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036425103     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.0asp1     Document Type: Article

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