Estimation of Contextual Effects Through Nonlinear Multilevel Latent Variable Modeling With a Metropolis–Hastings Robbins–Monro Algorithm

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 550-582

  Yang, Ji Seung ^a   Cai, Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Californias Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

contextual effect; latent variable modeling; multilevel latent variable modeling; multilevel modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919446787     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: 19351054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998614559972     Document Type: Article

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