To center or not to center? Investigating inertia with a multilevel autoregressive model

Whether level 1 predictors should be centered per cluster has received considerable attention in the multilevel literature. While most agree that there is no one preferred approach, it has also been argued that cluster mean centering is desirable when the within-cluster slope and the between-cluster...

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Main Authors: Ellen L. Hamaker, Raoul P. P. P. Grasman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01492/full