This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual-level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical techniques they already know, Robert Bickel emphasizes the parallels with more familiar regression models, shows how to do multilevel modeling using SPSS, and demonstrates how to interpret the results. He discusses the strengths and limitations of multilevel analysis and explains specific circumstances in which it offers (or does not offer) methodological advantages over more traditional techniques. Over 300 dataset examples from research on educational achievement, income attainment, voting behavior, and other timely issues are presented in numbered procedural steps.
- ISBN10 1593854293
- ISBN13 9781593854294
- Publish Date 24 May 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Guilford Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 428
- Language English