Previous workshop presentations

Materials are available from our previous workshops here:

• Introduction to multilevel modelling
• Multilevel modelling of discrete response data
• Multilevel discrete-time event history analysis
• QMSS 2 Bristol summer school on advanced methods for the analysis of complex event history data
  • Sequence analysis
  • Survival analysis
  • Models for recurrent events, multiple states and interdependent events
• Introduction to multilevel models: getting started with your own data (PowerPoint, 3.4 mb)
  • Residuals (PDF, 542kB)
    • See also: Residuals slide presentation with voice-over plus transcript
• Recent advances in multilevel modelling methodology and applications
  • Multi-level modelling: an essential analysis?
  • Ethnic group differences in educational attainments and progress revisited
  • Pupil mobility, neighbourhood effects and school differences in educational achievement
  • Multilevel mixture modeling methods
  • Analysing partially observed datasets by embedding in multilevel models
  • Prediction and diagnostics in generalized linear mixed models
  • Bayesian graphical models for combining mismatched administrative and survey data: application to low birth weight and water disinfection by-products
  • The use of centred parameterisations and MCMC estimation to fit multilevel discrete time survival models
  • Multilevel modelling of multivariate ordered response data
• Causal inference
• Association of educational assessment - Europe
  several papers and presentations including:
  • On international comparative studies on educational quality
  • Factors affecting the quality of the comparisons of scores from adapted assessments
  • Skill and will - test-taking motivation and assessment quality
  • Conditions for classroom assessment to steer student learning
  • Teacher competence - assessment for quality
  • Improving the quality of assessment
• Realcom
  • Recent advances in multilevel modelling workshop (PowerPoint, 0.5 mb)
  • REALCOM workshop training manual, bug-fixed version (PDF, 790kB)
• Statistics training for social scientists
  • Statistics Training and ESRC
  • Can't count, won't count? Some results from a national survey of student attitudes to quantitative methods
  • The development of web-based training resources
  • A virtual learning environment for multilevel modelling