Software for fitting multilevel models

The SAGE Handbook of Multilevel Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 465-484

  Gałecki, Andrzej T ^a   West, Brady T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILEVEL MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84943792369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446247600.n26     Document Type: Chapter

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