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 Lucy Morgan posted on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 12:34 am
Hi

Sorry to bother you with a very basic question but I have checked the forum and MPlus user guide to no avail. I am stuck!

I am trying to run a multilevel model assessing care assistant variables at the within level and nursing home manager variables at the between level. I have run a null model and models with within level variables (fixed and random slopes) successfully. However, when I try to add a between level variable to the model I get the following error message:

*** ERROR
One or more between-level variables have variation within a cluster for
one or more clusters. Check your data and format statement.

Between
Variable MAMC

Cluster ID with variation in this variable (only one cluster ID will be listed) 29
********

I have checked my data carefully and the values for the variable MAMC are all identical in the cluster identified, and I cannot see any errors in data entry in any of the other clusters either.

I was wondering if I have misunderstood the error message?

Many thanks
Lucy
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 5:52 am
No, you have not misunderstood the message. Please send the output, data, and your license number to support@statmodel.com.
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