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
Click here for the readings (zip
folder)
Current
Homework
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and link to the data sets.
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).
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
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
Quadratic Growth Curve Example
Growth
Curve Overheads: quadratic, polynomial, piecewise models
Multilevel Models with Binary
and other Noncontinuous Dependent Variables
Estimation Methods in
Non-continuous 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
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)
Join the multilevel modeling
list
A multilevel regression model
site at
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)