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Jason Newsom's
Multilevel Regression
USP 656 Advanced Data Analysis

Winter 2011 Syllabus
Click here for the class syllabus, reading list, and my contact information.

Supplemental Readings
Click here for the readings (zip folder)

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).

Introductory overheads

Overhead: within-group variance

Overhead: between-group variance

Random vs. fixed

Raudenbush & Bryk Example Data Set: High School & Beyond

SPSS and HLM examples: random effects ANOVA and ANCOVA

Example write-ups of the ANOVA and ANCOVA model examples

Intraclass correlation coefficient illustration

Overhead: Random slopes

Overhead: Slope-intercept correlations

Plotting Within-Group Regression Lines In SPSS and HLM

Significance Testing in Multilevel Regression

Some example R² computations for multilevel regression

Centering in Multilevel Regression

Centering in SPSS

Simple Slope Tests of Cross-level Interactions

Estimation Methods in Multilevel Regression

Some Model Fit Statistics Printed by SPSS Mixed

Assumption Checking with Residual Plots

Robust Standard Errors

Missing Data and Mutilevel Regression

Growth Curve Models

Preparing Data Sets for Growth Curve Analysis

Growth Curve Examples

Plotting Growth Curves in SPSS and HLM

Quadratic Growth Curve Example

Logistic Regression

Multilevel Models with Binary and other Noncontinuous Dependent Variables

Estimation Methods in Non-continuous Multilevel Regression

Binary Outcome Example in HLM

Regression Models for Ordinal Dependent Variables

Sample Size Issues and Power

Further Reading on Multilevel Regression

Stats Notes
Over 20 "Web lectures" on introductory graduate statistics

Links

Hox (first edition) computer examples at UCLA statistical computing site

Snijders & Bosker (1999) corrections and notes and other useful links

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

Craig Enders (Arizona State) Restructuring data with SPSS pull-down menus

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)

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)