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 victor china posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 11:49 pm
i would like to test the effect of a second level variable on the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable.

the independent variable has both a direct and indirect effect on the dependent variable.

does the second level effect (random slope & intercept) relate to the direct or total first level effect?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 9:52 am
You could do the following:

MODEL:
%WITHIN%
b | y ON x;
a | m ON x;
c | y ON m;
%BETWEEN%
a b c m y ON x;

This relates the three effects on the within level to the between-level covariate.
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