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gcsecomp1

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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.

Usage

gcsecomp1

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).

Details

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

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.

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)

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