WeMix-package: Estimate Weighted Mixed-Effects Models

In ClaireKelley/WeMix: Weighted Mixed-Effects Models using Multilevel Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Description

The WeMix package estimates mixed-effects models (also called multilevel models, mixed models, or HLMs) with survey weights.

Details

This package is unique in allowing users to analyze data that may have unequal selection probability at both the individual and group levels. For linear models, the model is evaluated with a weighted version of the estimating equations used by Bates, Maechler, Bolker, and Walker in lme4 (2015). In the non-linear case, WeMix uses numerical integration (Gauss-Hermite and adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature) to estimate mixed-effects models with survey weights at all levels of the model. Note that lme4 is the preferred way to estimate such models when there are no survey weights or weights only at the lowest level, and our estimation starts with parameters estimated in lme4. WeMix is intended for use in cases where there are weights at all levels and is only for use with fully nested data. To start using WeMix, see the vignettes covering the mathematical background of mixed-effects model estimation and use the mix function to estimate models. Use browseVignettes(package="WeMix") to see the vignettes.

References

Bates, D., Maechler, M., Bolker, B., & Walker, S. (2015). Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01

Rabe-Hesketh, S., & Skrondal, A. (2006) Multilevel modelling of complex survey data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 169, 805-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00426.x

Bates, Douglas & C. Pinheiro, Jose. (1998). Computational Methods for Multilevel Modelling. Bell labs working paper.

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