R2MLwiN (version 0.8-1)

gcsecomp1: Pupils' marks from GCSE exams (UK, 1989); complete cases only.

Description

Pupils' marks from GCSE exams, consisting of 1523 pupils across 73 schools. See Browne (2012) for further details.

source

Browne, W. J. (2012) MCMC Estimation in MLwiN Version 2.26. University of Bristol: Centre for Multilevel Modelling. Rasbash, J., Charlton, C., Browne, W.J., Healy, M. and Cameron, B. (2009) MLwiN Version 2.1. Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.

Details

The gcsecomp1 dataset is one of the sample datasets provided with the multilevel-modelling software package MLwiN (Rasbash et al., 2009).

Examples

data(gcsecomp1, package="R2MLwiN")

(mymodel <- runMLwiN(c(written, csework) ~ 1 + female + (1 | school) + (1 | student), 
  D = "Multivariate Normal", estoptions = list(EstM = 1), data = gcsecomp1))