A two-stage generalized least squares model is developed for estimating the linear regression of an individual outcome on a group characteristic in studies of multilevel data. This model differs from ...

In some distributions, such as the binomial distribution, the variance is determined by the mean. However, in practice, overdispersion is often observed where the variance is larger than that ...

This is a graduate-level course on multilevel modeling, a popular statistical approach in social, behavioral, and health sciences research. Multilevel modeling, also known as hierarchical linear ...

Multilevel Modelling is one of the basic techniques used in quantitative social science research for modelling data with complex hierarchical structures. The Multilevel Modelling research theme ...