R2MLwiN (version 0.8-2)

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.

Format

A data frame with 1523 observations on the following 6 variables:

school

Identifying code for each school (level 2 unit).

student

Identifying code for each pupil (level 1 unit).

female

Gender of pupil: a factor with levels Male and Female.

written

Exam score.

csework

Coursework score.

cons

Constant (=1).

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

## Not run: 
# 
# data(gcsecomp1, package="R2MLwiN")
# 
# (mymodel <- runMLwiN(c(written, csework) ~ 1 + female + (1 | school) + (1 | student), 
#   D = "Multivariate Normal", estoptions = list(EstM = 1), data = gcsecomp1))
# 
# ## End(Not run)