Clarke, Philippa; Wheaton, Blair - In: Sociological Methods & Research 35 (2007) 3, pp. 311-351
problem of data sparseness. In this study, the authors use Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the effects of marginal … data sparseness and examine the consequences in the simulations. They find that estimates of the fixed effects are robust … at the extremes of data sparseness, while cluster analysis is an effective strategy to increase group size and prevent …