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Snijders and Bosker (1999) use as a running example a study of 2287 eighth-grade pupils (aged about 11) in 132 classes in 131 schools in the Netherlands. Only the variables used in our examples are supplied.

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This data frame contains 2287 rows and the following columns:

lang

language test score.

IQ

verbal IQ.

class

class ID.

GS

class size: number of eighth-grade pupils recorded in the class (there may be others: see COMB, and some may have been omitted with missing values).

SES

social-economic status of pupil's family.

COMB

were the pupils taught in a multi-grade class (0/1)? Classes which contained pupils from grades 7 and 8 are coded 1, but only eighth-graders were tested.

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Source

Snijders, T. A. B. and Bosker, R. J. (1999) Multilevel Analysis. An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modelling. London: Sage.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

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