05.03.2014 Views

Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

Abbreviated Interrupted Time-Series - Institute for Policy Research

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Problematically<br />

• Different combinations of these have different<br />

distributions, e.g.,<br />

– Binomial <strong>for</strong> counts with fixed n of trials<br />

– Poisson <strong>for</strong> rates with variable n of trials<br />

• HLM usually assumes normally distributed data.<br />

– One can change this, but<br />

– It isn’t clear HLM how can allow different distributions <strong>for</strong><br />

different studies in the same meta‐analysis.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!