Jason Newsom’s
Multilevel Regression
USP 656 Advanced Data Analysis

Winter 2009 Syllabus
Click here for the class syllabus, reading list, and my contact information.

Supplemental Readings
Click here for the readings (zip folder)

Current Homework
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Homework Data Sets
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Overheads and Handouts
Handouts I’ve discussed in class and some of the overheads presented in class (MS Word format).

Introductory Overheads

Raudenbush & Bryk Example Data Set:  High School & Beyond

ANOVA and ANCOVA model examples

Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Example

Distinguishing Between Random and Fixed: Variables, Effects, and Coefficients

Slope Variance Illustration Overhead

Slope-intercept Correlation Overheads

Cross-level Interaction Example (Predicting Random Slopes)

Plotting Within-Group Regression Lines In SPSS and HLM (For Hierarchically Structured Data)

Exploring the Effects of Centering of Level-1 Predictors

Within, Between, and Compositional Effects Overhead

Centering in SPSS

Significance Testing in Multilevel Regression

Estimation Methods in Multilevel Regression

Some Model Fit Statistics Printed by SPSS Mixed

Assumption Checking with Residual Plots

Missing Data Estimation in Multilevel Regression

Clarification of Notation for Growth Curve Models

Growth Curve Examples

Quadratic Growth Curve Example

Plotting Growth Curves

Growth Curve Overheads: quadratic, polynomial, piecewise models

Sample Size Issues and Power

Growth Curve Power Overhead

Multilevel Models with Binary and other Noncontinuous Dependent Variables

Estimation Methods in Non-continuous Multilevel Regression

Binary Outcome Example in HLM

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

Craig Enders’ Restructuring data with SPSS pull-down menus

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)

HLM Examples

Join the multilevel modeling list

A multilevel regression model site at University of Bristol.  Information on software, papers, FAQs etc.

 Joop Hox (A number of good multilevel resources)

Patrick Curran’s growth curve examples on SAS, HLM, and 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

Alastair Leyland’s Review of SPSS Mixed

John Painter’s SPSS Mixed Examples

Optimal Design Power Software (free)