--- avwilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a three-level hierarchical dataset, and have run both xtlogit
> and gllamm, with similar results apart from the condition number and
> group level variance, and I do not know what these large numbers are
> telling me.
The condition number was discussed recently on statalist, see for the
answer given by Stas:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-08/msg00718.html
For an explanation on the group level variance see any text on random
effects, e.g. (Hox 2002, p. 13), or (Snijders and Bosker 1999, p. 18).
Joop Hox (2002) "Multilevel Analysis", Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Inc.
Tom Snijders and Roel Boskers (1999) "Multilevel Analysis, An
introduction to basic and advanced multilevel modeling", Thousand Oaks:
Sage.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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