MCMC manual example ordered - why not define pupil level?

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GerineLodder
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MCMC manual example ordered - why not define pupil level?

Post by GerineLodder »

I am attempting to use ordered logistic regression using R2MLwiN.
As a first step, I am looking at the R2MLwiN script for the MCMC manual example.

In chapter 13.3, pupil is set as the level 1 identifier.
In the R2MLwiN script, pupil is not included:

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##IGLS
(mymodel <- runMLwiN(logit(a_point, cons, 6) ~ 1, D = "Ordered Multinomial", data = alevchem))

##MCMC
(mymodel <- runMLwiN(logit(a_point, cons, 6) ~ 1, D = "Ordered Multinomial", estoptions = list(EstM = 1), data = alevchem))
It seems like ID (I guess row number) is automatically included.
However, if I do include 1|pupil:

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(mymodel <- runMLwiN(logit(a_point, cons, 6) ~ 1 + (1|pupil), D = "Ordered Multinomial", estoptions = list(EstM = 1), data = alevchem))
This means all variances and co-variances between the different levels of a_point are added.

Model results model without pupil level
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MLwiN (version: 3) multilevel model (Multinomial)
Estimation algorithm: MCMC Elapsed time : 8.34s
Number of obs: 2166 (from total 2166) Number of iter.: 5000 Chains: 1 Burn-in: 500
Bayesian Deviance Information Criterion (DIC)
Dbar D(thetabar) pD DIC
7726.511 7721.406 5.105 7731.616
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The model formula:
logit(a_point, cons, 6) ~ 1
Level 1: l1id
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The fixed part estimates:
Coef. Std. Err. z Pr(>|z|) [95% Cred. Interval] ESS
Intercept_F -1.40012 0.05613 -24.94 2.5e-137 *** -1.51127 -1.29510 194
Intercept_E -0.70183 0.04716 -14.88 4.28e-50 *** -0.79881 -0.61232 188
Intercept_D -0.09934 0.04498 -2.21 0.02721 * -0.19176 -0.01388 147
Intercept_C 0.59527 0.04602 12.94 2.84e-38 *** 0.49961 0.68032 223
Intercept_B 1.60622 0.05901 27.22 3.769e-163 *** 1.49184 1.71996 300
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
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The random part estimates at the l1id level:
Coef. Std. Err. [95% Cred. Interval] ESS
bcons_1 1.00000 1e-05 1.00000 1.00000 5000
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Model with pupil level
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MLwiN (version: 3) multilevel model (Multinomial)
N min mean max N_complete min_complete mean_complete max_complete
pupil 2166 1 1 1 2166 1 1 1
Estimation algorithm: MCMC Elapsed time : 43.97s
Number of obs: 2166 (from total 2166) Number of iter.: 5000 Chains: 1 Burn-in: 500
Bayesian Deviance Information Criterion (DIC)
Dbar D(thetabar) pD DIC
395.703 6.869 388.834 784.537
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The model formula:
logit(a_point, cons, 6) ~ 1 + (1 | pupil)
Level 2: pupil Level 1: l1id
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The fixed part estimates:
Coef. Std. Err. z Pr(>|z|) [95% Cred. Interval] ESS
Intercept_F 4.10627 0.77486 5.30 1.162e-07 *** 2.63315 5.49263 5
Intercept_E -2.07582 0.73007 -2.84 0.004465 ** -3.34374 -0.55136 40
Intercept_D -0.08980 0.45459 -0.20 0.8434 -0.93367 0.79449 32
Intercept_C 0.76966 0.54693 1.41 0.1594 -0.24859 1.89895 54
Intercept_B -1.74902 0.39295 -4.45 8.547e-06 *** -2.51739 -1.03183 28
Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
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The random part estimates at the pupil level:
Coef. Std. Err. [95% Cred. Interval] ESS
var_Intercept_(<=F) 103.12492 29.09328 58.88461 148.32300 1
cov_Intercept_(<=F)_Intercept_(<=E) -138.47910 26.94363 -179.05003 -92.21360 2
var_Intercept_(<=E) 196.79711 21.77792 152.69915 232.73954 4
cov_Intercept_(<=F)_Intercept_(<=D) 112.58096 26.81816 70.51030 148.04280 2
cov_Intercept_(<=E)_Intercept_(<=D) -156.13967 22.02502 -185.28259 -114.11827 2
var_Intercept_(<=D) 128.01792 24.27222 87.30998 167.62291 2
cov_Intercept_(<=F)_Intercept_(<=C) -165.09744 47.75515 -228.09562 -77.90900 1
cov_Intercept_(<=E)_Intercept_(<=C) 230.86870 45.27959 132.52153 287.67009 2
cov_Intercept_(<=D)_Intercept_(<=C) -186.69272 43.27639 -237.53872 -103.20750 2
var_Intercept_(<=C) 279.32319 75.09943 126.07002 362.58575 2
cov_Intercept_(<=F)_Intercept_(<=B) 105.01538 26.68246 62.48251 150.54072 2
cov_Intercept_(<=E)_Intercept_(<=B) -147.05840 21.62267 -185.23004 -104.85445 3
cov_Intercept_(<=D)_Intercept_(<=B) 120.01872 24.17397 82.77014 172.18165 2
cov_Intercept_(<=C)_Intercept_(<=B) -176.62759 40.04559 -243.33494 -100.78991 2
var_Intercept_(<=B) 116.30997 26.09783 82.89570 180.51572 3
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The random part estimates at the l1id level:
Coef. Std. Err. [95% Cred. Interval] ESS
bcons_1 1.00000 1e-05 1.00000 1.00000 5000
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I guess this is because the intercept for each level of a_level is now estimated as a random effect?
Could you indicate what this (seeming) difference between the MCMC manual means?
ChrisCharlton
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Re: MCMC manual example ordered - why not define pupil level?

Post by ChrisCharlton »

Although you can specify a level-1 variable for discrete models in MLwiN you cannot define any variables to be random at this level. The R2MLwiN syntax therefore does not include this level and instead creates the ID variable before sending the data to MLwiN. You can confirm this by turning on the debugmode option and comparing the model once MLwiN is loaded with that in the MCMC guide.
GerineLodder
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Re: MCMC manual example ordered - why not define pupil level?

Post by GerineLodder »

That makes sense, thank you.
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