Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Some applications of multilevel models of educational data / Donald B. Rubin
  • 2. Empirical Bayes methods : a tool for exploratory analysis / Henry I. Braun
  • 3. A hierarchical item-response model for educational testing / Robert J. Mislevy and R. Darrell Bock
  • 4. Difficulties with Bayesian inference for random effects / Charles Lewis
  • 5. Multilevel aspects of varying parameters in structural models / Bengt Muthe�n and Albert Satorra. Discussions of papers by Mislevy and Bock, Muthe�n and Satorra, and Lewis / Robert K. Tsutakawa
  • 6. Models for multilevel response variables with an application to growth curves / Harvey Goldstein
  • 7. Multilevel models : issues and problems emerging from their recent application in British students of school effectiveness / John Gray. What can go wrong with iteratively re-weighted least squares? / Peter McCullagh
  • 8. Toward a more appropriate conceptualization of research on school effects: a three-level hierarchical linear model / Anthony S. Bryk and Stephen W. Raudenbush
  • 9. Quantitative models for estimating teacher and school effectiveness / Stephen W. Raudenbush and Anthony S. Bryk
  • 10. Multilevel investigations of systematically varying slopes : issues, alternatives, and consequences / Leigh Burstein, Kyung-Sung Kim, and Ginette Delandshere. Multilevel data analysis : a discussion / Hariharan Swaminathan
  • 11. Profile predictive likelihood for random effects in the two-level model / Murray Aitkin
  • 12. Fisher scoring algorithm for variance component analysis of data with multilevel structure / Nicholas T. Longford. Discussion of Aitkin's and Longford's paper / Paul W. Holland
  • Addendum: Measurement of human variation : a two-stage model / R. Darrell Bock
  • Author index
  • Subject index.