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Hierarchical Linear Models **ISBN: 9780761919049**
Stephen W./ Bryk, Anthony S. Raudenbush

Sage Pubns, 2001

HLM 6: Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling

2 reviews
Stephen W. Raudenbush, Anthony S. Bryk, ...

Scientific Software International, Inc., 2004

Bare necessities
This book offers bare necessities to conduct analysis on your own. For those interested in approach on how to teach students to use and understand this concept, this book is not the happiest choice. Its textual style resembles more to a "users guide for technical appliance". Otherwise, useful in its intent.

Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods (Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the ...

3 reviews
Stephen W. Raudenbush, Anthony S. Bryk

Sage Publications, Inc, 2001

Useful, but need solid background in stats
This book describes important advances in statistical analysis of social science data, circa 1992. Much of this data has a natural hierarchical grouping. But traditional statistical methods proved inadequate at coping. The biggest drawback was the failure of the assumption of independence. If at the lowest level, Items I1,...,In are grouped into sets J1,...,Jm, where m To handle this, ...