Design considerations in multilevel studies

The SAGE Handbook of Multilevel Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 183-200

  Van Breukelen, Gerard ^a   Moerbeek, Mirjam ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446247600.n11     Document Type: Chapter

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