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A General Model for the Analysis of Multilevel Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Harvey Goldstein and
Roderick P. McDonald
Harvey Goldstein*
Affiliation:
University of London Institute of Education
Roderick P. McDonald
Affiliation:
Macquarie University
*
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Abstract

A general model is developed for the analysis of multivariate multilevel data structures. Special cases of the model include repeated measures designs, multiple matrix samples, multilevel latent variable models, multiple time series, and variance and covariance component models.

Keywords

complex surveysmixed effects modelsmultivariate linear modelrepeated measurestime seriesvariance component models

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Original Paper
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Psychometrika , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , December 1988, pp. 455 - 467
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

We would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Ruth Silver. We also wish to thank the referees for helping to clarify the paper. This work was partly carried out with research funds provided by the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.).

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