Introduction -- "Have you assaulted a politician?" Measuring political engagement using the simple Rasch model -- Expectations and residuals -- "All we need is love (and money)!" An introduction to the rating scale Rasch model -- Relaxing the common scale: the partial credit mod…
This unique text provides a step-by-step beginner's guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable ("latent") variables. Through a freely available and user-friendly package, BlueSky Statistics…
Multilevel modelling is a data analysis method that is frequently used to investigate hierarchal data structures in educational, behavioural, health, and social sciences disciplines. Multilevel data analysis exploits data structures that cannot be adequately investigated using s…
This extensively revised new edition reviews multilevel and longitudinal analysis. Uni-and multi-variate models are used to understand how to select and design studies and define, analyze, and interpret the results. Numerous examples from the behavioral, educational, organizatio…
Univariate and multivariate multilevel models are used to understand how to design studies and analyze data in this comprehensive text distinguished by its variety of applications from the educational, behavioral, and social sciences. Basic and advanced models are developed from…
"Preface Multilevel modeling has become a mainstream data analysis tool over the past decade, now figuring prominently in a range of social and behavioral science disciplines. Where it originally required specialized software, mainstream statistics packages such as IBM SPSS, SAS…
