Design efficiency for imbalanced multilevel data

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 192-203

  Cools, Wilfried ^a   van den Noortgate, Wim ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 65349192763     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.1.192     Document Type: Article

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