Multilevel analysis of educational data / 
edited by R. Darrell Bock. 
 - San Diego :  Academic Press,  c1989. 
 - xii, 354 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Papers and discussions presented at an international conference, organized by the Center for Research in Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing of UCLA, and by NORC; held Apr. 26-28, 1987, at the Princeton Hyatt Regency Hotel. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and indexes. 
<br/><br/>D.B. Rubin, Some Applications of Multilevel Models of Educational Data.<br/><br/>H.I. Braun, Empirical Bayes Methods: A Tool for Exploratory Analysis.<br/><br/>R.J. Mislevy and R.D. Bock, A Hierarchical Item-response Model for Educational Testing.<br/><br/>C. Lewis, Difficulties with Bayesian Inference for Random Effects.<br/><br/>B. Muthéen and A. Satorra, Multilevel Aspects of Varying Parameters in Structural Models.<br/><br/>R.K. Tsutakawa--Discussant, Discussions of Papers by Mislevy and Bock, Muthéen and Satorra, and Lewis.<br/><br/>H. Goldstein, Models for Multilevel Response Variables with an Application to Growth Curves.<br/><br/>J. Gray, Multilevel Models: Issues and Problems Emerging from their Recent Application in British Students of School Effectiveness.<br/><br/>P. McCullagh, Discussant, What Can Go Wrong with Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares?<br/><br/>A.S. Bryk and S.W. Raudenbush, Toward a More Appropriate Conceptualization of Research on School Effects: A Three-Level Hierarchical Linear Model.<br/><br/>S.W. Raudenbush and A.S. Bryk, Quantitative Models for Estimating Teacher and School Effectiveness.<br/><br/>L. Burstein, K.-S. Kim, and G. Delandshere, Multilevel Investigations of Systematically Varying Slopes: Issues, Alternatives, and Consequences.<br/><br/>H. Swaminathan, -Discussant, Multilevel Data Analysis: A Discussion.<br/><br/>M. Aitkin, Profile Predictive Likelihood for Random Effects in the Two-Level Model.<br/><br/>N.T. Longford, Fisher Scoring Algorithm for Variance Component Analysis of Data with Multilevel Structure.<br/><br/>P.W. Holland, Discussant, Discussion of Aitkin's and Longford's Paper.<br/><br/>R.D. Bock, Addendum-Measurement of Human Variation: A Two-Stage Model. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0121088405 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88007577  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Educational evaluation--Statistical methods--Congresses.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB2822.75  / .M85 1989 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370.727 BOC