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Vagenas, Dimitrios and Totsika, Vasiliki (2018) Modelling correlated data : multilevel models and generalized estimating equations and their use with data from research in developmental disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 81 . pp. 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2018.04.010 ISSN 0891-4222.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.04.010
Abstract
Background: The use of Multilevel Models (MLM) and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) for analysing clustered data in the field of intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) research is still limited.
Method: We present some important features of MLMs and GEEs: main function, assumptions, model specification and estimators, sample size and power. We provide an overview of the ways MLMs and GEEs have been used in IDD research.
Results: While MLMs and GEEs are both appropriate for longitudinal and/or clustered data, they differ in the assumptions they impose on the data, and the inferences made. Estimators in MLMs require appropriate model specification, while GEEs are more resilient to misspecification at the expense of model complexity. Studies on sample size seem to suggest that Level 1 coefficients are robust to small samples/clusters, with any higher-level coefficients less so. MLMs have been used more frequently than GEEs in IDD research, especially for fitting developmental trajectories.
Conclusions: Clustered data from research in the IDD field can be analysed flexibly using MLMs and GEEs. These models would be more widely used if journals required the inclusion of technical specification detail, simulation studies examined power for IDD study characteristics, and researchers developed core skills during basic studies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Learning disabilities -- Research, Developmental disabilities -- Research, Multilevel models (Statistics), Generalized estimating equations | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Research in Developmental Disabilities | ||||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0891-4222 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 81 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-11 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.04.010 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 May 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 May 2019 |
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