An assessment of estimation procedures for multilevel models with binary responses

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 73-89

  Rodríguez, Germán ^a   Goldman, Noreen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical models; Logistic regression; Random effects; Statistical software; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243757425     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983404     Document Type: Article

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