Selection bias in linear mixed models

Metron

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-329

  Grilli, Leonardo ^a   Rampichini, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Multilevel model; Random effects; Sample selection; Skew Normal distributions; Truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956087377     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03263542     Document Type: Article

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