Diagnostic checks for multilevel models

Handbook of Multilevel Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-175

  Snijders, Tom A B ^a,b   Berkhof, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73186-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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