Using Multilevel Models to Analyze Couple and Family Treatment Data: Basic and Advanced Issues.
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Family Psychology
- Vol. 19 (1), 98-110
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.19.1.98
Abstract
Couple and family treatment data present particular challenges to statistical analyses. Partners and family members tend to be more similar to one another than to other individuals, which raises interesting possibilities in the data analysis but also causes significant problems with classical, statistical methods. The present article presents multilevel models (also called hierarchical linear models, mixed-effects models, or random coefficient models) as a flexible analytic approach to couple and family longitudinal data. The article reviews basic properties of multilevel models but focuses primarily on 3 important extensions: missing data, power and sample size, and alternative representations of couple data. Information is presented as a tutorial, with a Web appendix providing datasets with SPSS and R code to reproduce the examples.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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