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Wolfe, Richard G.; Dunn, Jennifer L. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2003
In this article the authors demonstrate two instances where the jackknife can be used to enhance hierarchical linear model (HLM) analyses. The jackknife was used to improve the HLM estimates of composite measures by jackknifing over items. The first study examined fixed-effects and variance component estimation. The jackknife appeared to reduce…
Descriptors: Statistical Bias, Computation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Data Analysis