@Madalena

Multivariate Data Analysis, HAIR, ANDERSON, TATHAM & BLACK 5th Ed.

this book have examples applied with SPSS, as well as procedures for code syntax

CJ

Thanks Carlos.

MR

University of Athens

You might also consider FIeld A. (2013) Discovering statistics using SPSS, Sage publications, which provides a practical guide as well.

I concur -- Andy Field's book is phenomenal. His website, on the other hand, is bizarre (but, very entertaining... http://www.StatisticsHell.com/). Although, I don't believe he has much coverage of MLM.

What type of multilevel analysis are you planning on conducting?

I teach a multilevel course to our third year undergraduate geographers and have put the training manual we have written on Research Gate

Developing multilevel models for analysing contextuality, heterogeneity and change using MLwiN, Volume 1

Our year 4 (Master’s level students) get volume 2

Developing multilevel models for analysing contextuality, heterogeneity and change using MLwiN, Volume 2

I have also put all the data sets to accompany them – they should work with the free teaching version of MLwin that goes with the Lemma course

The Centre for Multilevel Modelling has a full online course (Lemma) that can be followed in R, Stata and Mlwin

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/online-course/index.html

My personal problem with SPSS is the interface is not all intuitive for the type of models my students want to fit (it is geared to repeated measure panel data) and it does not readily allow you to calculate the higher level residuals which I usually want to do (or at least it did not the last time that I looked)

The students have done an introductory course in SPSS in year 1, a regression modelling course in R in year 2. I teach 40 hours of contact which includes the lecture and practical hands on sessions which is based on taking the examples in Volume 1 and applying to other datasets.

The emphasis of the course is on modelling variance functions at different levels simultaenously.

Feedback is very welcome

Thank you all for references. I'm not interested in multilevel analysis for a specific investigation, but because I'm planning on proposing an optional discipline for social sciences graduates (sociologists, political scientists...).

Kelvyn, I know MLwiN is typically used for multilevel analysis, but I really want to use SPSS. SPSS is the software we use in all our classes and I do not have time to teach / introduce another for my students. The course will have 24 hours of contact including lecture and pratical sessions. Students already had an introductory course of regression (with SPSS). Do you think is viable?

Yes is the quick answer - plenty of time as long as you do not try to do too much.

But my concern(with SPSS)is the lack of ability to get at the residuals easily

for how to do it, see

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/spss.html

For someone who is critical of the interface, see

http://www.jeremymiles.co.uk/regressionbook/2005/08/longitudinal-multilevel-models-in-spss.html

for help see

http://www.jeremymiles.co.uk/regressionbook/2006/06/more-on-multilevel-in-spss.html

There is also the (relatively introductory) book

Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It's Just Regression! (Methodology in the Social Sciences) by Robert Bickel PhD which is designed around using SPSS

We have a policy of exposing students to different software environments so switching software is part of how we teach.

And the Lemma course is there to be used with different software- the concepts are separate from the practice, so you could make use of whatever you want and indeed contribute back to the Centre's materials

I learnt yesterday that we are going to provide Lemma for SPSS but I do not know the timescale.

Some people like point and click - some people like syntax - and others the equations; and that is why I prefer to teach with MLwin - you know precisely what you are doing and if you do not know, you cannot do it!

Best of luck

Kelvyn

Dear Madalena,

Andy Field's book has a small coverage of MLM. However, the examples you find there can be articulated with the info about mixed models presented in the latest version of Joao Maroco's book (ANÁLISE ESTATISTICA com a utilização do SPSS) and with the fabulous MLM contents at UCLA website.

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/topics/MLM.htm

Regarding the course, I think is viable, however a solid knowledge on MRLM is an assumption for MLM courses.

I let you a link from Hayes' site with a nice intro to MLM using SPSS.

Wish you a nice training course!

ftp://131.252.97.79/Transfer/ES_Pubs/ESVal/multilevel_analysis/hayes_06_multilevel_primer_socialsci.pdf

Thank you all for your responses. I will certainly take into account your suggestions and recommendations.

A nice and instructive text for the SPSS Mixed Procedure can be found here:

Peugh, J. L., & Enders, C. K. Using the SPSS Mixed Procedure to fit cross-sectional and longitudinal multilevel models. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65(5), 717–741. doi:10.1177/0013164405278558

It provides examples for the two most rudimentary analyses, but if you're used to SPSS syntax it's easy to understand.

Apologies that this a question and not an answer but since we have SPSS multilevel users out there responding to Madalena's question.............

"does SPSS readily calculate the higher-level residuals?"

For my part , I want the precision-weighted estimates of the differentials from the general relationship because they are of key substantive interest. I fully understand that if I had 1000 people with repeated measures, I probably would not be so keen, but in most of the things I do want to calculate and display these differentials as they are social and insitutional contexts.

It also makes it much easier in teaching when you can display the differentials (random intercepts and slopes) and then explain the variances and covariances from there - (I do undertand in estimation that it goes the other way).

The online SPSS training web site at

http://people.cst.cmich.edu/lee1c/spss/

has a list of video clips to show how to use SPSS to conduct a variety of analysis including multilevel analysis, mixed model, GLM, etc.

Chris Charlton at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at Bristol has been converting our Lemma training materials for Modules 3 and 5 into SPSS form which should give you plenty of scope for an introductory class.

I have been editing them today so they should be available pretty soon. I learnt that SPSS still does not estimate the random slopes (only the variance of these) and that it cannot estimate models with complex level-1 heterogeneity for continuous predictors (it can do it for categorical predictors). However Chris has provided matrix syntax code in SPSS to calculate the slopes and he provides an IGLS algorithm for complex level-1 heterogeneity.

This is a personal thing but I still do not like the SPSS interface for mixed models!

Chris Charlton has now completed the conversion of some of our online Lemma training materials into SPSS. Two Modules have been completed.

• Module 3 on using Multiple regression this can be used as a pre-cursor to the multilel part of the course

• Module 5: Introduction to Multilevel Modelling.

Importantly the latter show you how to use SPSS syntax to calculate higher- level residuals. The material separtes out concepts from implementation

You can freely use these materials to teach yourself, and/or use them in courses you are teaching.

The course already has material for MLwiN, Stata and R.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/news/57.htmlhttp://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/news/57.html

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/online-course/index.html

Thanks for the information.

Regards

Thanks Béatrice, but my question was not about the use of SPSS. I teach data analysis always using SPSS.

What I want to know is if anyone uses SPSS instead of other softwares (as MLwin, for instance) to do multilevel analysis.

Regarding SPSS, I personally love Andy Field´s book: Discovering statistics using spss.

How can I use spss for multi-level logistic regression models?

Emma

The book is pretty comprehensive guide 

Multilevel Modeling of Categorical Outcomes Using IBM SPSS

By Ronald H Heck, Scott Thomas, Lynn Tabata

It takes you through a large number of examples - binary , ordinal, counts, - both through the GUI and syntax.

Can anybody refer me to some reference or video dealing with GENLINMIXED, generalized linear mixed model, in SPSS? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anybody_refer_me_to_some_reference_or_video_dealing_with_GENLINMIXED_generalized_linear_mixed_model_in_SPSS [accessed Dec 5, 2016].

Thanks Kelvyn, 

How I can us spss for multi-level 3-levels HLM?

How can I use STATA for a multilevel logistic regression?

Here is an easy and comprehensive book on Multilevel Modelling using SPSS. However, I use Mplus rather than SPSS or HLM for traditional multilevel analysis and Multilevel SEM.

https://www.amazon.com/Multilevel-Longitudinal-Modeling-Quantitative-Methodology/dp/0415817110

Maybe to teach the use of another package may be of benefit too? Especially if one would have an interest to run multilevel analyses.

Muy recommendation is SPSS