Outliers in multilevel data

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

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-160

  Langford, Ian H ^a   Lewis, Toby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Hierarchical data; Influential data points; Leverage; Multilevel modelling; Outlier detection; Reduction in deviance; Studentized residuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039988652     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00094     Document Type: Article

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