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Unnecessary reliance on multilevel modelling to analyse nested data in neuroscience: When a traditional summary-statistics approach suffices

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  • McNabb, Carolyn Beth

    (University of Reading)

  • Murayama, Kou

    (University of Reading)

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A simulation experiment to confirm the validity of summary-statistics approaches for analysing nested data

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  • McNabb, Carolyn Beth & Murayama, Kou, 2021. "Unnecessary reliance on multilevel modelling to analyse nested data in neuroscience: When a traditional summary-statistics approach suffices," OSF Preprints h4s9f, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/h4s9f
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