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... > social science subjects > psychology > applied psychology > industrial and organizational psychology > foundations: measurement theory and statistics > multilevel modeling
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multilevel modeling  

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  • Multilevel modeling is the simultaneous use of more than one source of data in a hierarchical structure of units and is useful for analysis of clustered or longitudinal data. Single-level models are unable to accommodate the characteristics of hierarchical data structures, such as unit of analysis, aggregation bias, state dependency, and within-group and between-group heterogeneity, resulting in misestimations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Multilevel Modeling]

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