Consequences of unmodeled nonlinear effects in multilevel models

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-114

  Bauer, Daniel J ^a   Cai, Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical linear models; Mixed models; Multilevel models; Nonlinear effects; Spurious effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049135482     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998607310504     Document Type: Article

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