Building Path Diagrams for Multilevel Models

Psychological Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-297

  Curran, Patrick J ^a   Bauer, Daniel J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Author keywords

graphics; hierarchical linear modeling; multilevel modeling; path diagrams

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 34548815948     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.12.3.283     Document Type: Article

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