Robustness issues in multilevel regression analysis

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-137

  Maas, Cora J M ^a   Hox, Joop J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Robust) standard errors; Cluster sampling; Huber White correction; Maximum likelihood; Multilevel modeling; Sample size; Sandwich estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842783963     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0039-0402.2003.00252.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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