Modeling heterogeneous variance–Covariance components in two-level models

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 307-332

  Leckie, George ^a   French, Robert ^a   Charlton, Chris ^a   Browne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous within group variances; Heteroscedasticity; Log linear variance models; Multilevel models; Variance functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908893395     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: 19351054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998614546494     Document Type: Article

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