1. Please post in plain text, not HTML, which can get garbled. 2. I believe your syntax is incorrect, but I haven't used lmer in a while, and so what I believe should be ignored anyway. HOWEVER, there is a SIG (special interest group) for mixed models, and you have a much better chance of getting reliable advice on such matters there. So you should sign up and post to R-sig-mixed-models on these topics rather than here.
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:10 PM, David Roy <dmr02...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am conducting a multilevel regression analysis on the effect of an > intervention on student test results, and am not sure how to implement the > necessary R code to correctly capture the nested structure. > > > > The outcome measure for the study is whether a student passed or failed a > final exam. The structure of the data is students nested within schools, > and then schools nested within random assignment blocks. Treatment (i.e., > the intervention) was implemented at the school-level. The covariates that > I am planning to use are prior year test scores (this is also a binary > variable for pass or fail), race, and gender. > > > > My ideal output would show the impact of the treatment for each of the > random assignment blocks, and then the weighted average of the impact > across all of the random assignment blocks. > > > > Based on my research thus far, it seems like the **lmer** function from the > **lme4** package would be the best route to go. > > > > This is the code that I have tried: > > > > # Fit multilevel regression with random assignment blocks > > glmer2 <- glmer(Post_Test_Score ~ Treatment + > > Pre_Test_Score + > > (1 | School) + > > (1 | Random_Assignment_Block), > > data = StudyData, > > family = binomial("logit")) > > > > My two questions are the following: > > > > 1.) Given the nested structure of my data, would the above regression > output the correct coefficient for the impact of treatment across all > random assignment blocks? > > > > 2.) How would I code the interaction effect between Treatment and > Random_Assignment_Block in order to generate separate impact estimates for > each of the random assignment blocks? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.