On optimizing multi-level designs: Power under budget constraints

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-229

  Headrick, Todd C ^a   Zumbo, Bruno D ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Budget constraint; Effect size; Lagrange multiplier; Level of randomization; Multi level design; Optimization; Power; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244460360     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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