Evaluation of conditional weight approximations for two-level models

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-204

  Stapleton, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel models; Multilevel pseudomaximum likelihood; Sampling weights

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL SAMPLING; DATA SETS; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL MODEL; MULTILEVEL PSEUDOMAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SAMPLING DESIGN; SAMPLING UNITS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TWO-LEVEL MODELS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862108478     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2011.579700     Document Type: Article

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