Asymptotic effect of misspecification in the random part of the multilevel model

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-218

  Berkhof, Johannes ^a   Kampen, Jarl Kennard ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Between unit variance proportion; Misspecification; Moment estimation; Multilevel model; Random coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344243533     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986029002201     Document Type: Article

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