Multilevel Multivariate Meta-analysis with Application to Choice Overload

Psychometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 255-271

  McShane, Blakeley B ^a   Böckenholt, Ulf ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

choice; meta analysis; multilevel; multivariate; overload

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85019610164     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-017-9571-z     Document Type: Article

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