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examples in Raudenbush and Bryk

4 messages · Juliet Hannah, Tobias Verbeke, Douglas Bates

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Hi List,

Does anyone know if nlme or lme4 code is available for the examples in
RB 2002 (specifically
Chapter 8, but other chapters also if available).

Thanks,

Juliet
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Juliet Hannah<juliet.hannah at gmail.com> wrote:
It would not be difficult to code up those examples in lme or lmer if
we could get access to the data sets.  Are the data sets available,
perhaps with the HLM software?
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Douglas Bates wrote:
I found this:

ftp://ftp.lisrel.com/hlm/unix/hlm5exs.tar.Z

According to the readme

ftp://ftp.lisrel.com/hlm/unix/readme

the datasets accompany the HLM5 manual,
but some (HSB1 from appendixa/ e.g.) are
reported elsewhere as being analyzed in
Raudenbush and Bryk (2002). I don't have
a copy so cannot help in identifying the
data from Chapter 8 (if present).

HTH,
Tobias
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tobias Verbeke<tobias.verbeke at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for checking on that, Tobias.  As far as I can see that tar
file contains the data from the High School and Beyond study (HSB) in
appendix a, the EG data set in appendix b and the THAI data set in
appendix c.  These are the ones available in an ASCII format.  Other
data sets are only available in a SAS format for a VM/CMS machine
(interesting concept of "portable data format").

One can convert these to R data sets.  The EG data are already
available as egsingle in the mlmRev package and a truncated version of
the HSB data are available as Hsb82 in the same package.  The THAI
data can be converted as shown in the enclosed.