Model selection for multilevel models

The SAGE Handbook of Multilevel Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 109-126

  Steele, Russell ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODEL SELECTION; MULTILEVEL MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949754259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446247600.n7     Document Type: Chapter

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