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McCoach, D. Betsy; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Newton, Sarah D.; Li, Xiaoran; Kooken, Janice; Yomtov, Dani; Gambino, Anthony J.; Bellara, Aarti – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2018
This study compared five common multilevel software packages via Monte Carlo simulation: HLM 7, M"plus" 7.4, R (lme4 V1.1-12), Stata 14.1, and SAS 9.4 to determine how the programs differ in estimation accuracy and speed, as well as convergence, when modeling multiple randomly varying slopes of different magnitudes. Simulated data…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Computer Software, Comparative Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods
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Sweet, Tracy M.; Junker, Brian W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
The hierarchical network model (HNM) is a framework introduced by Sweet, Thomas, and Junker for modeling interventions and other covariate effects on ensembles of social networks, such as what would be found in randomized controlled trials in education research. In this article, we develop calculations for the power to detect an intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Networks, Statistical Analysis, Computation
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McNeish, Daniel M.; Stapleton, Laura M. – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Multilevel models are an increasingly popular method to analyze data that originate from a clustered or hierarchical structure. To effectively utilize multilevel models, one must have an adequately large number of clusters; otherwise, some model parameters will be estimated with bias. The goals for this paper are to (1) raise awareness of the…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Sample Size, Effect Size