Optimal design in multilevel experiments

Handbook of Advanced Multilevel Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 257-281

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Teerenstra, Steven ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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