The effects of the number of cohorts, degree of overlap among cohorts, and frequency of observation on power in accelerated longitudinal designs

Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-24

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accelerated design; linear growth; longitudinal data; multilevel model; statistical power

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751538760     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000019     Document Type: Article

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