Errata for Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Second Edition
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| (1,2) | Chapter 1, p. 17, third line under equation |
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| Here t = 99.53, ... | Here t = 10.09, ... |
| (1) | Chapter 3, p. 132, last line of third paragraph |
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| SES) is often called a contextual effect or compositional effect. | SES) is often called a contextual effect in contrast to compositional effect. |
| (1,2) | Chapter 4, p. 165, first two histogram commands at the bottom of the page |
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. histogram reff1 if pickone==1, normal xtitle(Predicted random slopes) . histogram reff2 if pickone==1, normal xtitle(Predicted random intercepts) |
. histogram ebs if pickone==1, normal xtitle(Predicted random slopes) . histogram ebi if pickone==1, normal xtitle(Predicted random intercepts) |
| (1,2) | Chapter 4, p. 167, last group of Stata examples on page |
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. gsort +reffm1 -f . generate rank = sum(f) . generate labpos = reffm1 + 1.96*reffs1 + .4 . serrbar reffm1 reffs1 rank if f==1, addplot(scatter labpos rank, mlabel(school) msymbol(none) mlabpos(0)) scale(1.96) xtitle(Rank) ytitle(Prediction) legend(off) |
. gsort +reffm1 -pickone . generate rank = sum(pickone) . generate labpos = reffm1 + 1.96*reffs1 + .4 . serrbar reffm1 reffs1 rank if pickone==1, addplot(scatter labpos rank, mlabel(school) msymbol(none) mlabpos(0)) scale(1.96) xtitle(Rank) ytitle(Prediction) legend(off) |
| (1) | Chapter 5, p. 196, three lines above section 5.5.5 |
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| can be eliminated by double differencing or “difference-in-difference”, .... | can be eliminated by double differencing, .... |
| (1) | Chapter 6, p. 281, exercise 6.7.2, left-hand-side of the equation |
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| (1) | Chapter 6, p. 284, exercise 6.9.6c |
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| c. Run the gllamm command from step 3 ... | c. Run the gllamm command from step 2 ... |
| (1) | Chapter 6, p. 284, exercise 6.9.6d |
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| d. Compare the estimates with those from step 3 ... | d. Compare the estimates with those from step 2 ... |
| (1) | Chapter 10, p. 467, exercise 10.4.2 |
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| 2. Obtain the estimated intraclass correlations of the latent responses for ... | 2. Obtain the estimated intraclass correlations for ... |
| (1) | Chapter 10, p. 470, exercise 10.9.5 |
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| 5. Perform likelihood-ratio tests for the two variance components using a 5% level of significance. | 5. Perform likelihood-ratio tests for each of the variance components using a 5% level of significance. |
| (1) | Chapter 11, p. 478, first sentence of paragraph above section 11.3.4 |
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| The reason for choosing year to be at level 2 and to have a random intercept for each firm at level 3 is to minimize the computational burden. | The reason for choosing year to be at level 3 and to have a random intercept for each firm at level 2 is to minimize the computational burden. |
| (1) | Chapter 11, p. 502, exercise 11.2.6 |
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| 6. Fit the model ... Explain how and why the estimated coefficient of lnfuel changes compared with the model that treats year as random. | 6. Fit the model ... Explain how and why the estimated coefficient of log fuel price changes compared with the model that treats year as random. |
