Improving Statistical Inference with Clustered Data

Statistics, Politics and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Harden, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrapping; clustered data; generalized estimating equations; multilevel data; multilevel modeling; robust cluster standard errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890164914     PISSN: 21946299     EISSN: 21517509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/2151-7509.1026     Document Type: Article

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