Optimal experimental designs for multilevel logistic models with two binary predictors

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1151-1167

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Maas, Cora J M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Level of randomization; Multilevel logistic model; Nested data; Sample sizes; Variance components

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

LEVEL OF RANDOMIZATION; MULTILEVEL LOGISTIC MODEL; NESTED DATA; SAMPLE SIZES; VARIANCE COMPONENTS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 20344394427     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200056839     Document Type: Article

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