Thanks Carlos and Joseph for pointing out the references.
Susan
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From: "Susan Olivia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: FW: st: Variance decomposition
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:13:22 -0700
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Joseph McDonnell Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Variance decomposition
>
> Susan
>
> many multilevel models are based on "location" e.g.
> schools within region, students within schools,
> measurements within students. There are a number of books
> on multilevel/random-effect models. Rabe-Hesketh and
> Skrondal's Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using
> Stata is one that addresses such models from a Stata
> user's point of view and I can personally recommend it.
> It's available at the StataCorp website.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joseph
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Susan Olivia
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Stata list,
> >
> > I have the following model y[ch] = x?[ch]beta +
u[ch]
> > and u[ch] = eta[c] + e[ch],
> >
> > where c corresponds to location ?c? and h
corresponds to
> > household ?h?. In other words, the error term can
be
> > thought of the error due to the location component and
> the household component. >
> >
> > I would like to decompose the total variance due to
> > these two effects. Can I get any advice how to tackle
> this issue? >
> > At first sight, I thought this model is similar to that
> > of random effects, but we?re dealing in space rather
> than time dimension. >
> >
> > Any insights on this are much appreciated. As I still
> > have a lot to learn on Stata.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Susan
> >
> >
> >
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