A latent cluster-mean approach to the contextual effects model with missing data

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-53

  Shin, Yongyun ^a   Raudenbush, Stephen W ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual effect; EM algorithm; Ignorably missing; Latent cluster mean; Measurement error; Random coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950545486     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998609345252     Document Type: Article

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