Jason Newsom’s
Multilevel Regression
USP 656 Advanced Data Analysis
Winter
2006 Syllabus
Click here for the class syllabus,
reading list, and my contact information.
Current
Homework
Get a copy of the current homework
and link to the data sets.
Homework
Data Sets
Get the data you need here
Overheads
and Handouts
Handouts I’ve discussed in class and some
of the overheads presented in class (MS Word format).
Raudenbush & Bryk Example
Data Set: High School & Beyond
Intercept Only Model Examples:
SPSS and HLM
Distinguishing Between Random
and Fixed: Variables, Effects, and Coefficients
Within Group Variance Overhead
(Power Point)
Between Group Variance
Overhead (Power Point)
Correlation of Slope and
Intercept Overhead 1 (Power
Point)
Correlation of Slope and
Intercept Overhead 2 (Power
Point)
Correlation of Slope and
Intercept Overhead 3 (Power
Point)
Cross-level Interaction
Example (Predicting Random Slopes)
Plotting Within-Group
Regression Lines In SPSS and HLM (For Hierarchically Structured Data)
Intraclass Correlation
Coefficient Example
Exploring the Effects of
Centering of Level-1 Predictors
Some Model Fit Statistics
Printed by SPSS Mixed
Estimation Methods in
Multilevel Regression
Assumption Checking with
Residual Plots
Plotting Growth Curves in SPSS
Missing Data Estimation in
Multilevel Regression
Further Reading on Multilevel
Regression
Stats
Notes
Over 20 “Web lectures” on introductory graduate
statistics
Links
Snijders & Bosker (1999) corrections and notes
Snijders & Bosker Textbook
computer examples at UCLA site (SAS, MLWin, Mplus, HLM)
UCLA site examples for other multilevel texts
UCLA
SPSS casestovars and varstocases examples
Singer & Willet’s Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Book
Growth curve examples from the Singer & Willet
text (includes SPSS as well as SAS, HLM, MLWin, State, SPlus, Mplus)
HLM 6 Student Version (for the full
version and other information, see the HLM main menu at SSI)
HLM Software Rental (rent for 6 months or a
year)
Join the multilevel modeling
list
A multilevel regression model site at
Institute of Education, University of London.
Information on software, papers, FAQs etc.
Joop Hox (A number of good multilevel
resources)
Are Multilevel Modeling
Techniques Necessary? (manuscript by Kreft & Yoon, 1996)
Patrick Curran’s growth curve examples on
latent growth curves
Basic concepts in HLM with applications for policy
analysis (online article by Willms, 1999)
Free multilevel regression software: MIXREG, MIXNO,
MIXPREG (by Don Hedeker and Robert Gibbons)
Singer’s Using SAS Proc Mixed article
John Painter’s SPSS Mixed Examples
Optimal Design Power Software
(free)