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Hello, I want to predict teacher judgment accuracy from predictors at student (dummy coded) and at classroom level (continuous) and possible interactions. I am thus estimating an intercepts and slopes as outcome model. Also, I have a variable indicating how well the teacher knows a child. As teachers differ in how well they know the kids of their class (for various reasons), my approach was to group-center it and to integrate it at the individual level: [...skip usevar ...] cluster = classno; within = kennkind sex_kid lang_kid ses1 ses2 ses3; between = nostudcl aa_berer; missing = all(-99999); DEFINE: CENTER kennkind (GROUPMEAN); ANALYSIS: type = twolevel random; MODEL: %within% randslp | tjagdstu ON kennkind sex_kid lang_kid ses1 ses2 ses3; %between% tjagdstu ON nostudcl aa_berer; randslp ON nostudcl aa_berer; tjagdstu WITH randslp; OUTPUT: sampstat stdyx; Have I missed something? (I am especially unsure if I have to estimate random slopes for all independent variables, e.g. randslp1 | tjagdstu ON kennkind; randslp2 | tjagdstu ON sex_kid, etc.). Why is it that despite an ICC of .08 for the dependent variable, the level 2 predictors do not explain any variance? Thanks in advance, Tanja |
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You cannot say MODEL: %within% randslp | tjagdstu ON kennkind sex_kid lang_kid ses1 ses2 ses3; but instead you have to define a random slope for each of those 6 predictors separately. You don't have to define random slopes for all of them - in fact, I would explore the need for it for each at a time. As for your last question, you may have the wrong predictors. |
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Thanks, Bengt! I'm making progress ;) Re. the prediction at Level 2, you are probably right. The question is exploratory, and the result makes sense, in a way. I have now compared the model with random slopes for every predictor (which does not really explain anything) to one with direct prediction only: ANALYSIS: type = twolevel random; MODEL: %within% tjagdstu ON kennkind sex_kid lang_kid ses1 ses2 ses3; %between% tjagdstu ON nostudcl aa_berer; Does this make sense to you? Thanks a lot, Tanja |
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Looks fine. You don't need RANDOM in this case. |
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