The influence of misspecification of the heteroscedasticity on multilevel regression parameter and standard error estimates

Methodology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-72

  Korendijk, Elly J H ^a   Maas, Cora J M ^a   Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Van der Heijden, Peter G M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trials; Heterogeneous variances; Heteroscedasticity; Homoscedasticity; Multilevel analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949106984     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241.4.2.67     Document Type: Article

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