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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"multilevel logistic regression"”.
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Predictors of Higher Education Participation for Students with a Specific Learning Disability: A Secondary Data Analysis of High School Students in Washington State
… disability (SLD). The results of the HGLM multilevel logistic regression indicate that probabilities of higher education participation significantly increase for those students who attend schools with a smaller student-teacher ratio, and who are non-white, female, identify English as their …
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A Bayesian multilevel model for women unemployment in South Africa
… Bayesian estimation approach were applied to a multilevel logistic regression (MLR) model. Secondary data acquired from the Demographic and Health survey (DHS) held in South Africa in 2016 was used in the study. Information criteria revealed that the random intercept model outperformed the MLR …
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Epidemiology of prescription drug abuse in Illinois high school students
… drug use from the 2010 Illinois Youth Survey. Multilevel logistic regression was performed to account for the multistage sampling and hierarchical structure of the data, using software such as HLM, STATA, and SPSS. Abuse of any prescription drug and of subclasses such as uppers, downers, …
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Modeling Mortality of Loblolly Pine Plantations
… mortality models were developed using multilevel logistic regression and survival analysis techniques. Multilevel data structure inherent in permanent sample plots data i.e. measurement occasions nested within trees (e.g., repeated measurements) and trees nested within plots, is often …
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Does Context Matter to ACEs? The Role of State Economic Context and Selected State Policies in Childhood Adversity
… status (SES), race/ethnicity, and ACEs. Using multilevel logistic regression modeling, this dissertation found that several state-level economic characteristics and policies were directly correlated with ACEs, with lower state socioeconomic status and less supportive social policies resulting …
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Trajectories of Emotional Problems in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Immigrants
… of socio-demographic covariates, results from multilevel logistic regression models indicated that immigrant parents have higher odds of reporting emotional problems in comparison to non-parent immigrants, and these differences are stable across the first four years following immigration. These …
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Immigrant Inclusion: Reframing Local Politics in Immigration Debates
… Population Survey. I use a combination of OLS, logistic regression, and multilevel logistic regression models to arrive at my findings.
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Multilevel Analysis of Physical Activity Among US Adults Across US Census Regions: The Role of Environmental Contexts
… relationships with the dependent variable. Multilevel logistic regression is used to examine the environmental factors and their cross-level interaction effects that explain variation in PA across the four regions.</p> <p>In Northeast, built environments and urban status are the …
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The utility of hierarchical logistic regression for predicting repeated measures binary responses
This report will employ a hierarchical logistic regression model with mixed effects as an alternative to the traditional analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach that is often used when repeated observations are taken for each treatment. In the case of a binary response variable, ANOVA approaches …
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Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database
… physician, health care center (HCC)) and Multilevel Regression analysis techniques (MLRA) offer a suitable tool to analyse these kinds of data. Data extracted from computerised medical records are ideal for studying practice variation as they often comprise information from several levels. …
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Neighbourhood deprivation and adult adiposity in South Africa
… women) were considered as having high adiposity. Multilevel logistic regression was used for data analysis due to hierarchical nature of the data to allow simultaneous examination of the impact of some socio-economic factors influencing adiposity. The results showed that individuals that were …
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A CULTURAL BACKLASH ALL OVER EUROPE? INVESTIGATING THE LINK FROM VALUES TO VOTES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… the hypothesized link if the theory holds. Multilevel logistic regression techniques are employed to test the hypotheses. But the results often do not match the theoretical predictions. Evidence for a cultural backlash, in the form of an association between socially conservative attitudes …
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Young People’s Demography in Democracy: The Effect of Youth Cohort Size on Youth Political Attitudes and Behaviors in Democratic Societies (1995-2020)
… new democracies. The study uses single-level and multilevel logistic regression modeling techniques within large -N research designs, on individual-level data from World Values Survey Waves 3-7 (1995- 2020), and country-level data from the United Nations Population Division, World Bank, the Polity …
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Vulnerability and risk to HIV infection in Uganda: multilevel modelling of Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey Data
… The analyses were based on the application of Multilevel Logistic regression models to 2004-05 and 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Surveys, fitted in MLwiN. Chapter 5 about the influence of SES on HIV infection and Chapter 6 on the influence of community factors on HIV infection are based on pooled …
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Inanspruchnahme von Impfungen bei Eltern in Kirgisistan : Empfehlungen für die Impfpolitik
… with incomplete or missing vaccination Multilevel logistic regression analyses of the MICS data showed that the only variable significantly associated with the incomplete vaccination status of children was the wealth index. The risk of not being completely vaccinated with DTP and polio …
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Optimizing Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Living with HIV in Low and Middle-Income Settings
… copies/mL). Finally, separate covariate-adjusted multilevel logistic regression models were fitted to determine the association between each adherence measure and viral suppression. Aim 2 relied on baseline data, as well. Specifically, for this aim (2), guided by theory, I used selected …