Specification of random effects in multilevel models: a review

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 967-976

  Grilli, Leonardo ^a   Rampichini, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tools; Finite mixture; Heteroscedasticity; Misspecification; Mixed model; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939892061     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0060-5     Document Type: Article

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