Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It’s Just Regression! (Methodology In The Social Sciences)
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Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It’s Just Regression! (Methodology In The Social Sciences)
Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It’s Just Regression! (Methodology In The Social Sciences)
By Robert Bickel
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Number Of Pages: 355
Publication Date: 2007-04-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1593854293
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781593854294
Binding: Hardcover
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual-level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical techniques they already know, Robert Bickel emphasizes the parallels with more familiar regression models, shows how to do multilevel modeling using SPSS, and demonstrates how to interpret the results. He discusses the strengths and limitations of multilevel analysis and explains specific circumstances in which it offers (or does not offer) methodological advantages over more traditional techniques. Over 300 dataset examples from research on educational achievement, income attainment, voting behavior, and other timely issues are presented in numbered procedural steps. Note: Complete datasets, and other useful information, are available at www.itsjustregression.net.
Summary: Mediocre
Rating: 3
There is a need for a text pitched at readers without strong statistical backgrounds. Unfortunately, this is not the one.
For some reason, the author feels defensive about multilevel methodology, and seems too spend much of the first several chapters apologizing for it. Beyond that, though, he jumps around too much — for example, presenting results and promising to explain them later — and fails to define key ideas (such as “nesting” and “contextual variables”) Overall, it lacks focus.
Summary: My Review
Rating: 3
Oberall, this book is accessible to most graduate students of the social sciences. However, my only concern is where the heck can the reader get the same data sets as the procedures follow?! So, if you are buying this book for learning multilevel analysis, just realize that you do not have access to the data sets the author talks about.
Summary: Teaching like
Rating: 4
A good book. Very good examples. I missed some reference to the mathematical derivations of the econometric techniques being used. Also, it would be nice that the data sets were available online.
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