--- Jackson, Theron Keith wrote:
> I ran the following model and I am having trouble reading the
> hierarchial part of the data. <snip>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Random-effects Parameters | Estimate Std. Err. [95% Conf.Interval]
-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------
county: Independent |
var(Co_Ngh~s) | 3.468035 2.131447 1.039768 11.56725
var(_cons) | 7.75e-17 1.75e-09 0 .
-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------
RESIDZIP: Independent |
var(Nghd_Dis) | 3.65e-13 1.93e-06 0 .
var(_cons) | 8.22e-16 1.21e-08 0 .
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Your model has a major problem, most of the variances are zero (remember
1e-16 means 0.00000000000000001).
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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