Level 2 Units

[menaka18]

Hello mlwin users,

I have a dataset where individuals are in the second level and the measurement occasions are in the first level.

I want to add age, gender, height and weight of the individuals as level-2 variables to the model.

Age - Numeric variable
Gender - Binary variable
Height - Numeric variable
Weight - Numeric variable

My question is "Should the level-2 variables always be nominal/binary variables?"

Can I add height and weight of the individuals as level 2 predictors?

Thanks in advance!
Menaka

[ChrisCharlton]

Yes, you should be able to to do this. Chapter 13 of the MLwiN user guide (available from http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwi ... nuals.html) demonstrates fitting a similar model using continuous age and reading score variables.