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This paper summarizes the interrelationships among within-aggregate, between-aggregate, and total-group correlation coefficients, with artificial and “real-data” examples. It also discusses the relevance of correlation analyses at various levels of aggregation and some of the difficulties encountered in cross-level inference.
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