Hierarchical linear models with an application to educational scores

• Main Author: Fang, Lei
• Other Authors: Phang, Rosalind Lay Ping
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Educational technology::Computer assisted instruction
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14110
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In social research work, the structure of the data are often hierarchical. Hierarchical linear models (HLM) is a statistical method that takes this hierarchical structure into account. Hierarchical linear models is a generalization of traditional regression methods. It develops an improved estimatio...