Handling Correlations Between Covariates and Random Slopes in Multilevel Models

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 524-549

  Bates, Michael David ^a   Castellano, Katherine E ^b   Rabe Hesketh, Sophia ^c   Skrondal, Anders ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

endogeneity; hierarchical linear model; multilevel model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919426857     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: 19351054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998614559420     Document Type: Article

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