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Longitudinal and Multilevel Data in R and Stan ICPSR short course: May 28 to June 1, 2018 May 28: Introduction to R by John Fox May 29 to June 1: Longitudinal and Multilevel Data in R and Stan by Georges Monette Sponsored and organized by ICPSR, University of Michigan and held at York University in Toronto, Ontario Course description:https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0226

Hello, I have difficulties to deal with multilevel model. My dataset is composed of 10910 observations, 1237 plants nested within 17 stations. The data set is not balanced. Response variable is binary and repeated. I tried to fit this model model<- glmmPQL( y ~ z1.lon*lun + z2.lat*lun + z1.lon*lar + z2.lat*lar + z1.lon*sca + z2.lat*sca +z1.lon*eta + z2.lat*eta, random = ~ lun + lar + sca

Hi, I'm trying to reshape my data set from wide to tall format for multilevel modeling. Unfortunately, the function I typically use (make.univ from the multilevel package) does not appear to work with unbalanced data frames, which is what I'm dealing with. Below is an example of the columns of a data frame similar to what I'm working with: ID a1 a2 a4 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 Below

I am using a multilevel modeling approach to model change in a person's symptom score over time (i.e., longitudinal individual growth models). I have been using the lme function in the multilevel package for the analyses, but my problem is that my outcome (symptoms) and one of my predictors (events) are count data, and are non-normal. Do you have any suggestions for how to deal with them?

Hi R folks (Dr. Bates in particular), In August 2005, Dr. Bates mentioned that the documentation for lme4 "will be in the form of a book with the working title 'Multilevel Modeling in R'" and I'm just wondering if there is an estimated date of publication or if it's still a long way off. The Rnews article does a great job of introducing the package, but I'm

Dear All, I use R to conduct multilevel modeling. However, I have a problem about the interpretation of random effect. Unlike the variables in fixed effects, the variables in random effects have not shown the p-value, so I don't know whether they are significant or not? I want to obtain this figure to make the decision. Thanks a lot! Below is the syntax and output of my program:

It is not a pure R question,but I hope some one can give me advices. I want to use analysis my data with the multilevel model.The data has 2 levels---- the second level has 52 units and each second level unit has 19-23 units.I think the sample size is quite small,but just now I can't make the sample size much bigger.So I want to ask if I use the multilevel model to analysis the data set,will

Hi, I'm trying to perform a power simulation for a simple multilevel model, using the function glmmPQL in R version 2.8.1. I want to extract the p-value for the fixed-effects portion of the regression, but I'm having trouble doing that. I can extract the coefficients (summary(fit)$coeff), and the covariance matrix (summary(fit)$varFix), but I can't grab the p-value (or the

Goodmorning everybody, i'm an italian statistician and i'm using R for research. Could someone tell me some indices to see the goodness of fit in multilevel modelling? I'm using the lmer function, and I want to know if my model fit well my data. I actually want to justify the use of multilevel model instead the classical one. Hope someone can help me. Thank you. Greetings

Dear all, I am struggling with a problem which I have been reading on the forums about and it did not seem to me that there is a precise answer to my question. However, I still hope there is one. I am working with http://timss.bc.edu/ PIRLS data and trying to conduct multilevel analysis. There are different weights for each level of analysis in the PIRLS dataset (e.g. there is a school

Hi, I am trying to run a multilevel model with time nested in people and people nested in dyads (3 levels of nesting) by initially running a series of models to test whether the slope/intercept should be fixed or random. The problem that I am experiencing appears to arise between the random intercept, fixed slope equation AND. (syntax: rint<-lme(BDIAFTER~BDI+WEEK+CORUMTO,

In our recent workshop on "Multilevel Modeling in R" we discussed handling data for multilevel modeling. An classic example of such data are test scores of students grouped into schools. We may wish to model the scores as functions of both student-level covariates and school-level covariates. Such data are often organized in a multi-table format with a separate table for each level of

Hi, does anyone out there have a recommendation for multilevel / random effects and longitudinal analysis? My dream book would be something that's both accessible to a non-statistician but rigorous (because I seem to be slowly turning into a statistician) and ideally would use R. Peter

I am new to R and would like to get some practice analyzing multilevel data. I wonder if anyone can point me to a sample data set and command lines that I might replicate for a sample session. I would then compare my output with HLM output. Any help is appreciated. ------ Harold C. Doran Director of Research and Evaluation New American Schools 675 N. Washington Street, Suite 220 Alexandria,

Hello -- I am curious if lmer can be used to fit a multilevel factor model such as a two-parameter item response model. The one parameter model is straightforward. A two-factor model requires a set of factor loadings multiplying a single random effect. For example, a logit model for the ith subject responding correctly to the jth item (j=1,..,J) is logit[p(ij)] = a1*item1(i) + ... + aJ *

Dear All, does anybody know of a package (working under Linux) for multilevel IRT modelling? I'd love to do this without having to go on WINSTEPS or the like.. thanks for the attention! Federico Andreis ----- Dr. Federico Andreis Universit? degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, PhD Student MEB Department, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Visiting PhD Student -- View this message in context:

I am trying to plot an interaction in a multilevel model. Here is some sample data. In the following example, it is longitudinal (i.e., repeated measures), so the outcome, score (at each of the three time points), is nested within the individual. I am interested in the interaction between gender and happiness predicting score. id <- c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3) age <-

Dear ListeRs, I am trying to fit a heteroscedastic multilevel model using lmer{lme4- package). Take, for instance, the (fictive) model below. lmer(test.result ~ homework + Sex -1 + (1 | School)) Suppose that I suspect the error terms in the predicted values to differ between men and women (so, on the first level). In order to model this, I want the 'Sex'-variable to be random on

Dear list, I'm trying to fit a multilevel (mixed-effects) model using the lme function (package nlme) in R 2.4.0. As a mixed-effects newbie I'm neither sure about the modeling nor the correct R syntax. My data is structured as follows: For each subject, a quantity Y is measured at a number (>= 2) of time points. Moreover, at time point 0 ("baseline"), a quantity X is

Dear all, I am trying to replicate some multilevel models with binary outcomes using R's "lmer" and "glmmPQL" and Stata's gllmm, respectively. The data can be found at <http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahf34/xerop.dta>. The relevant Stata output can be found at <http://www.uni- koeln.de/~ahf34/stataoutput.txt>. First, you will find the unconditional model,