Missing data techniques for multilevel data: Implications of model misspecification

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1845-1865

  Black, Anne C ^a,b   Harel, Ofer ^a   Betsy McCoach, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Missing data; Monte Carlo; Multilevel data; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961137307     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.529882     Document Type: Article

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