To center or not to center? Investigating inertia with a multilevel autoregressive model

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Hamaker, Ellen L ^a   Grasman, Raoul P P P ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autoregressive models; Centering; Dynamics; Inertia; Multilevel models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926631094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01492     Document Type: Article

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