Testing homogeneity in a random intercept model using asymptotic, posterior predictive and plug-in p-values

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-196

  Kato, Bernet Sekasanvu ^a   Hoijtink, Herbert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrepancy Measure; Homogeneity; Multilevel model; p value; Random intercept model; Test statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842783961     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0039-0402.2003.00255.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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