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Understanding and misunderstanding group mean centering : a commentary on Kelley et al.'s dangerous practice
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- Bell, Andrew (författare)
- Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
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- Jones, Kelvyn (författare)
- School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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- Fairbrother, Malcolm, 1975- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Sociologiska institutionen
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- 2017-11-07
- 2018
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Quality and quantity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0033-5177 .- 1573-7845. ; 52:5, s. 2031-2036
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- Kelley et al. argue that group-mean-centering covariates in multilevel models is dangerous, since—they claim—it generates results that are biased and misleading. We argue instead that what is dangerous is Kelley et al.’s unjustified assault on a simple statistical procedure that is enormously helpful, if not vital, in analyses of multilevel data. Kelley et al.’s arguments appear to be based on a faulty algebraic operation, and on a simplistic argument that parameter estimates from models with mean-centered covariates must be wrong merely because they are different than those from models with uncentered covariates. They also fail to explain why researchers should dispense with mean-centering when it is central to the estimation of fixed effects models—a common alternative approach to the analysis of clustered data, albeit one increasingly incorporated within a random effects framework. Group-mean-centering is, in short, no more dangerous than any other statistical procedure, and should remain a normal part of multilevel data analyses where it can be judiciously employed to good effect.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
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- Multilevel models
- Random effects
- Group-mean-centering
- Mundlak
- Fixed effects
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