Treatment of missing data at the second level of hierarchical linear models

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 204-238

  Gibson, Nicole Morgan ^a   Olejnik, Stephen ^b  

^a VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical linear models; Missing data; Missing data treatments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037278514     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164402250987     Document Type: Article

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