Assessing and Adjusting for Dependent Observations in Group Treatment Research using Multilevel Models

Group Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 151-162

  Tasca, Giorgio A ^a   Illing, Vanessa ^a   Ogrodniczuk, John S ^b   Joyce, Anthony S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dependent observations; group effects; group treatment; hierarchical linear modeling; multilevel modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349271233     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014837     Document Type: Article

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