Optimal experimental designs for multilevel models with covariates

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2683-2697

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Van Breukelcn, Gerard J P ^a   Berger, Martijn P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Level of randomization; Optimality criteria; Pre stratification; Sample sizes

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244433914     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100108453     Document Type: Article

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