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 Mohd Masood posted on Sunday, May 06, 2012 - 10:16 pm
Hello, I am doing multilevel modeling on a complex survey data with following variables
bmi age sex education setting psu strata pweight

bmi is a continuous outcome variable; age is a continuous explanatory variable at level 1; sex is a categorical explanatory variable at level 1; education is a ordered explanatory variable at level 1; setting (urban or rural) is a categorical explanatory variable at level 2 (PSU level); psu is clustering in survey design ( I am also using psu for grouping that means psu is level 2); strata is stratification; pweight is weights


TITLE: Multilevel modeling with sampling characteristics of complex survey data.
DATA: FILE = met.dat;
VARIABLE: NAMES = bmi age sex education setting psu strata pweight;
CLUSTER = psu;
STRATIFICATION= strata;
WEIGHT=pweights;
WITHIN= age sex education;
BETWEEN= setting;
ANALYSIS: TYPE = COMPLEX TWOLEVEL;
MODEL:
%WITHIN%
bmi ON age sex education;
%BETWEEN%
bmi ON setting;

Are the input commends correct?
will this model correctly take account of sampling characteristics and multilevel modeling with psu as level 2.
Finally outcome I am looking for is estimates, SE and p value for fixed and random effect. I am also looking for variance by psu and residual variance. how can i get these outcomes.

regards
masood
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 - 7:52 am
It looks correct. Any sampling characteristics you have mentioned are taken into account. You should get the variance for bmi on the between level as the default.
 Mohd Masood posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 - 8:40 pm
Thanks Linda for your prompt reply.
 Mohd Masood posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 1:25 am
Thanks again Linda for prompt reply on my last post,here is one more question

I am doing MLM with following variables
bmi age sex education setting psu.

individual is Level 1
PSU is level 2 or grouping variable

bmi is a continuous outcome variable; age is a continuous explanatory variable at level 1; sex is a categorical explanatory variable at level 1; education is a ordered explanatory variable at level 1; setting (urban or rural) is a categorical explanatory variable at level 2 (PSU level);

TITLE: Multilevel modeling
DATA: FILE = bmi.dat;
VARIABLE: NAMES = bmi age sex education setting psu;
CLUSTER = psu;
WITHIN= age sex education;
BETWEEN= setting;
ANALYSIS: TYPE = TWOLEVEL;
MODEL:
%WITHIN%
bmi ON age sex education;
%BETWEEN%
bmi ON setting;

Are the input commends correct to see the effect of level 1 and level 2 explanatory variable on outcome variable at level 1?

regards
masood
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 10:33 am
BMI is not on either the BETWEEN or WITHIN list. It is decomposed into a between and within part. See Slide 48 of the Topic 7 course handout on the website to see exactly how this works.
 Mohd Masood posted on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 5:13 am
It means these commands are correct? If this model and commends are correct why R and Mplus giving different results. They should give similar results.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 11:29 am
Your commands look correct.

I don't believe that R can do latent variable decomposition of an individual-level variable. The only comparison to R would be the first part of the example where there is an observed variable on within and an observed variable on between.
 Mohd Masood posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 5:21 am
Hi Linda
I am trying to generate some simulation data fitted with multilevel complex survey model (COMPLEX TWOLEVEL). That means I am looking for data as it coming from complex survey (sampling weights and clustering). I couldn't find in Mplus how to incorporate weights in it. Please let me know how can I generate this data for my Monte Carlo study.

Regards
Masood
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 10:33 am
Weights cannot be included in a Monte Carlo study using Mplus.
 Mohd Masood posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 9:00 pm
Therefore, I can only generate data for multilevel Monte Carlo study without weights?
Any Suggestion which software can generate weighted Monte Carlo data. Can I bring that data to Mplus for COMPLEX TWOLEVEL analysis. I appreciate your help

Thanks
Masood
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 10:35 am
I do not know of any software that generates weighted data.
 Mohd Masood posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 6:58 pm
I am planning for a simulation analysis for multilevel complex data. As we have discussed that Mplus can not generate data with weights.
Now I am planning to generate a population and doing a complex sampling from that.

Please guide me how can I generate a population fitting a multilevel Model.

Here are the parameters and variables for my population

Total population= 100,000
Number of PSU= 200
Mean PSU size= 500
Variance in outcome variable due to PSU= 20%


Outcome variable (continuous)eg BMI Mean=A, SD=B

Level 1 Predictor 1 (dichotomous) eg Gender Proportion= Male:Female

Level 1 Predictor 2 (categorical) eg education
Proportion=Primary:Secondery:University

Level 1 Predictor 3 (Continuous)
Eg income Mean=G, SD=H
Level 1 Predictor 4 (Continuous) eg Age Mean=I, SD=J
Level 2 Predictor 1 (categorical) eg Rural PSU/urban PSU Proportion=Rural:Urnan
Level 2 Predictor 2 (continuous) eg number of Gymnasium in that PSU. Mean=M,SD=N


Please guide me how can I generate this population.


Kindest Regards
Masood
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 9:49 am
See Example 12.4 and the Monte Carlo counterpart examples to the examples in Chapter 9. The CSIZES and NCSIZES options are what are used to generate the clustered data.
 Mohd Masood posted on Monday, December 03, 2012 - 8:52 pm
I am generating the data using example 12.4 but I am not sure how can I save this data. Please let me know how can I save this data in a excel or spss or stata file as i want to analyze this data in R.

Thanks
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2012 - 5:46 am
See the SAVE option in the MONTECARLO command.
 Mohd Masood posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 12:42 am
I am working on the example 12.4.
I do get the explanation for the following codes

MONTECARLO:
NAMES ARE y1-y4 x w;
NOBSERVATIONS = 1000;
NREPS = 500;
SEED = 58459;
CUTPOINTS = x (1) w (0);
MISSING = y1-y4;
NCSIZES = 3;
CSIZES = 40 (5) 50 (10) 20 (15);
WITHIN = x;
BETWEEN = w;

But don't get the explanations for the following codes. Please let me know where i can get the explanations for them.

MODEL POPULATION:
%WITHIN%
x@1;
iw sw | y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
y1-y4*.5;
iw ON x*1;
sw ON x*.25;
iw*1; sw*.2;
%BETWEEN%
w@1;
ib sb | y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
y1-y4@0;
ib ON w*.5;
sb ON w*.25;
[ib*1 sb*.5];
ib*.2; sb*.1;
MODEL MISSING:
[y1-y4@-1];
y1 ON x*.4;
y2 ON x*.8;
y3 ON x*1.6;
y4 ON x*3.2;

Thanks
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 5:41 am
MODEL POPULATION is described in Example 12.1. MODEL MISSING is described in Example 12.8.
 Mohd Masood posted on Sunday, January 06, 2013 - 6:10 am
Dear Linda
Thanks for your prompt replies

Please let me know how can i set ICC in outcome variable in example 12.4. I mean i want my intercept model give me

cluster variance/ residual variance=0.2

Thanks
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Sunday, January 06, 2013 - 5:29 pm
I don't know what you mean by your "intercept" model. You have a growth model with an intercept growth factor and a slope growth factor. The ICC for the outcome variable changes over the time points. As always

ICC = (between variance)/(between var+ within var).
 Mohd Masood posted on Sunday, January 06, 2013 - 9:03 pm
In example 12.4 in

MODEL POPULATION:
%WITHIN%
x@1;
iw sw | y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
y1-y4*.5;
iw ON x*1;
sw ON x*.25;
iw*1; sw*.2;
%BETWEEN%
w@1;
ib sb | y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
y1-y4@0;
ib ON w*.5;
sb ON w*.25;
[ib*1 sb*.5];
ib*.2; sb*.1;

My questions are
what y1-y4*1 is stands for in %WITHIN% and what y1-y4@0 is stands for in %BETWEEN%.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, January 07, 2013 - 6:47 am
y1-y4*.5; and y1-y4@0; refer to residual variances.
 Mohd Masood posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - 4:35 am
Dear Muthans
I want to do bootstrapping for complex survey data but I want to analysis the data generated by bootstrap as multilevel model. Please advice how can I run that.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - 9:18 am
Bootstrap is not available in Mplus for TYPE=COMPLEX or TWOLEVEL.
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