Re: st: Random coefficient

[Michael Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

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Greetings

  I wish I could write a good answer via email, but a good answer
would essentially be a short chapter of a book... I could supply a
short lousy answer, but instead I would like to recommend that you
check out this list of multilevel modeling books at

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/books/#Multilevel

  Among those books, I think you would find one that would give you a
very satisfying answer. Two of the books can be downloaded via the web

    * Applied Multilevel Analysis by J.J. Hox (PDF, free download)
    * Multilevel Statistical Models by Harvey Goldstein (PDF, free download)

  For a basic introduction, I like

  Introduction to Multilevel Modeling by Ita Kreft and Jan de Leeuw (3 copies)

  For a more thorough treatment, you might like

  Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced
Multilevel Modeling by Tom Snijders and Roel Bosker which also has
examples available at
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/ma_snijders/default.htm

  or

  Hierarchical Linear Models, Second Edition by Stephen Raudenbush and
Anthony Bryk

I hope this is helpful,

Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
See the Stata tidbit of the week at...
http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com
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