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Many thanks George!

Hi, I'm running cross-classified models with neighbourhoods, schools and children. This might be a basic question - but how can I best determine whether the between-group variances are statistically significant? Can I treat the standard deviation of the random effect estimates like a standard error?...

Dear George,

you are right of course - all is working now.

Many thanks and best wishes
Anja

Dear George, many thanks for the quick reply and the explanation re standard error/standard deviation. I do have version 2.25 installed but the "runmlwin, zratio" command still doesn't return p values for me. I pasted my output and code below: . runmlwin maths7sas cons , level3 (dlsoa:cons...

Hi, I am running cross-classified models using the MCMC option. The output shows the z values and ESS. The runmlwin help file says it is possible to get p-values with the option zratio, but when I try I get this error message: 'option zratio not allowed' This is how I specified the option: runmlwin ...

Dear George,

I did what you suggested (increase burnin and chain) and yes now the estimates are very similar.

Many thanks for your help,
Anja

Dear George, You were right - I did the update and now everything seems to be working fine. Apologies for not thinking of this myself! I can now run models for the whole of the UK with sensible results. The estimates for Wales are similar to what I get from xtmixed. For the single-country analysis t...

Dear George, many thanks for the quick reply! This is the runmlwin output: . runmlwin s4read cons , level3 (msoa4all:cons) level2(s4schoolid: cons) level1(mcsid: cons) mcmc (cc) initsb ( > b) MLwiN 2.24 multilevel model Number of obs = 1714 Normal response model Estimation algorithm: MCMC No. of Obs...

Dear all, I am new to MLwiN and have been trying to run a cross-classified model with 3 levels: children, schools and neighbourhoods. I have data from all UK countries, but the data is sparse and in Stata, the model would only run for one of them (Wales) where the number of observations per group is...