A novel bootstrap procedure for assessing the relationship between class size and achievement

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-443

  Carpenter, James R ^a   Goldstein, Harvey ^b   Rasbash, Jon ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class size project; Confidence interval; Multilevel model; Nonparametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142188164     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00415     Document Type: Review

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