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Baek, Eunkyeng; Luo, Wen; Henri, Maria – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
It is common to include multiple dependent variables (DVs) in single-case experimental design (SCED) meta-analyses. However, statistical issues associated with multiple DVs in the multilevel modeling approach (i.e., possible dependency of error, heterogeneous treatment effects, and heterogeneous error structures) have not been fully investigated.…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Inference
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Cao, Chunhua; Kim, Eun Sook; Chen, Yi-Hsin; Ferron, John; Stark, Stephen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2019
In multilevel multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) models, covariates can interact at the within level, at the between level, or across levels. This study examines the performance of multilevel MIMIC models in estimating and detecting the interaction effect of two covariates through a simulation and provides an empirical demonstration of…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Structural Equation Models, Computation, Identification
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Huang, Francis L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
The use of multilevel modeling (MLM) to analyze nested data has grown in popularity over the years in the study of school psychology. However, with the increase in use, several statistical misconceptions about the technique have also proliferated. We discuss some commonly cited myths and golden rules related to the use of MLM, explain their…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, School Psychology, Misconceptions, Correlation
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Huang, Francis L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Studies analyzing clustered data sets using both multilevel models (MLMs) and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression have generally concluded that resulting point estimates, but not the standard errors, are comparable with each other. However, the accuracy of the estimates of OLS models is important to consider, as several alternative techniques…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Least Squares Statistics, Regression (Statistics), Comparative Analysis
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Rhoads, Christopher – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Experimental evaluations that involve the educational system usually involve a hierarchical structure (students are nested within classrooms that are nested within schools, etc.). Concerns about contamination, where research subjects receive certain features of an intervention intended for subjects in a different experimental group, have often led…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Error of Measurement, Research Design, Statistical Analysis
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Vanhove, Jan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
I discuss three common practices that obfuscate or invalidate the statistical analysis of randomized controlled interventions in applied linguistics. These are (a) checking whether randomization produced groups that are balanced on a number of possibly relevant covariates, (b) using repeated measures ANOVA to analyze pretest-posttest designs, and…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Applied Linguistics, Statistical Analysis
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Aydin, Burak; Leite, Walter L.; Algina, James – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
We investigated methods of including covariates in two-level models for cluster randomized trials to increase power to detect the treatment effect. We compared multilevel models that included either an observed cluster mean or a latent cluster mean as a covariate, as well as the effect of including Level 1 deviation scores in the model. A Monte…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Predictor Variables, Randomized Controlled Trials, Experimental Groups
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Lai, Mark H. C.; Kwok, Oi-man – Journal of Experimental Education, 2015
Educational researchers commonly use the rule of thumb of "design effect smaller than 2" as the justification of not accounting for the multilevel or clustered structure in their data. The rule, however, has not yet been systematically studied in previous research. In the present study, we generated data from three different models…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Cluster Grouping, Statistical Data