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Dear all, I have been searching far and wide for a solution to the problem of negative intracluster correlation in the case of a binomial response variable (also known as under-dispersion). Prentice (1986) (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2289219) developed an extension of the beta-binomial model which allowed for this negative correlation. Palmquist (1997)(http://www.polmeth.wustl.edu/media/Paper/palmq97.pdf) developed a module (ebb) for Stata which implemented this solution, but this has since been discontinued and is no longer available...