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 Inga BEck posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 3:33 am
Hi!
I am a relative beginner of multilevel modeling in mplus and mow modeled a 2-level path model. So no factors, just sum scores plus one context variable. My model model looks like this:

Between:

W--> A_bw --> B_bw

Within:

A_wi --> B_wi

ICCs of the observed variabels range from .05 to .07. According to the indices, the model fits ok.

Interestingly, I got a non-significant R-square on the between-level regarding the A_bw variable (two-tailed p = .18). But A_bw is regressed on W, and this effectis (using stdyx)both moderately large (beta=.45)and significant (z-ratio 2.64, p<.01)

So what does a non-significant R-square on the between-level for A_bw acutally indicate? Does it indicate some source of misspecification in this model - despite the "good" fit of the indices and the theoretically expected estimates?

Thanks for your help,
Inga
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 7:00 am
A non-significant R-square indicates that the variance explained is not significantly different from zero.
 Inga BEck posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 8:47 am
yes I see, but this stands in contrast to the significant effect w --> A_bw, don't you think so?

Best,
Inga
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 8:57 am
I don't think so. A coefficient can be significantly different from zero and still not explain a significant amount of variance. The tests are not the same.
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