re: st: question about hierarchical model

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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Can the student evaluations be the dependent variable?

So is the performance measure predictive of student evaluations?

> I'm stumped on how to approach this model.  
> 
> Suppose I have 30 teachers each of whom have a single performance rating from the principle (or headmaster).  Each teacher has 20-30 students (not crossed) who have completed student evaluations.  The question is what is the association between performance ratings and student evaluations?
> 
> What I'm confused about is that I have level-2 dependent variable with level-1 and level-2 predictors (e.g. teacher age and teacher gender)
> 
> I thought that the following model might work:
> 
> .xtmixed t_perform s_eval t_age t_sex || s_eval: , mle
> 
> 
> But I don't think this is correct model, because it regress Yi on Xij and Xi predictors?
> 
> Can this problem be addressed using -xtmixed- or is a different approach required?
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 


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