By Jan de Leeuw, Erik Meijer (auth.), Jan de Leeuw, Erik Meijer (eds.)
Multilevel research is the statistical research of hierarchically and non-hierarchically nested facts. the best instance is clustered info, corresponding to a pattern of scholars clustered inside faculties. Multilevel information are in particular common within the social and behavioral sciences and within the bio-medical sciences. The types used for this kind of information are linear and nonlinear regression types that account for saw and unobserved heterogeneity on the a variety of degrees within the info.
This ebook provides the cutting-edge in multilevel research, with an emphasis on extra complex issues. those themes are mentioned conceptually, analyzed mathematically, and illustrated by means of empirical examples. The authors of the chapters are the top specialists within the field.
Given the omnipresence of multilevel info within the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, this publication turns out to be useful for empirical researchers in those fields. earlier wisdom of multilevel research isn't really required, yet a simple wisdom of regression research, (asymptotic) facts, and matrix algebra is assumed.
Jan de Leeuw is unique Professor of data and Chair of the dept of facts, collage of California at l. a.. he's former president of the Psychometric Society, former editor of the Journal of academic and Behavioral Statistics, founding editor of the Journal of Statistical Software, and editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis. he's coauthor (with Ita Kreft) of Introducing Multilevel Modeling and a member of the Albert Gifi workforce who wrote Nonlinear Multivariate Analysis.
Erik Meijer is Economist on the RAND company and Assistant Professor of Econometrics on the college of Groningen. he's coauthor (with Tom Wansbeek) of the hugely acclaimed ebook Measurement mistakes and Latent Variables in Econometrics.
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Observe that if bj = (Xj Xj )−1 Xj y j , then Wj is the dispersion of bj . Ac∆ ∆ cordingly, from now on we redefine bj =(Xj Xj )−1 Xj yj and rj = yj − Xj bj , regardless of the definition of Aj . 20 J. de Leeuw, E. 11) and thus rj Vj−1 rj = σj−2 rj rj = (nj − p)s2j /σj2 and Xj Vj−1 Xj = Wj−1 . Hence, ρj (γ) = (bj − Zj γ) Wj−1 (bj − Zj γ) + (nj − p)s2j /σj2 . 10). 2 Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) The least squares approach supposes that the weight matrix is known, but, of course, in a more general case the weight function will depend on some unknown parameters that have to be estimated from the same data as the regression coefficients.
Further Numerical and Computational Issues As we have seen, most formulas for computing estimates for multilevel models can be expressed in different ways. Some of these are clearly computationally inefficient, whereas others use the structure of the problem in better ways. This pertains to usage of memory, sizes of inverses needed, and other ways to compute the same expressions. Given the sizes of typical multilevel datasets and the ways in which computations can be done inefficiently, implementing an estimator for a multilevel model for general use needs considerable fine-tuning.
An expression for their dispersion matrices is easily obtained by using Cov(bj ) = Wj , which was obtained above. Hence, the dispersion matrix of the two-step estimator is −1 m m Zj Zj Zj Wj Zj j=1 j=1 −1 m Zj Zj j=1 and the dispersion matrix of the one-step estimator is −1 m m Zj Xj Xj Zj j=1 Zj Xj Xj Wj Xj Xj Zj j=1 −1 m Zj Xj Xj Zj . j=1 Despite their virtues, these least squares estimators have fallen into disgrace in the mainstream multilevel world, because they are neither BLUE nor BLUP 26 J.