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Jan de Leeuw, Ita G. G. Kreft, Questioning Multilevel Models, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Hierarchical Linear Models: Problems and Prospects (Summer, 1995), pp. 171-189
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