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I'm not sure what is causing this, but it may be that it is running out of worksheet space. I suggest that you try increasing the allocated worksheet size and see whether you get the same issue.

Are you trying to install it with an account with administrative privileges? In order to start the trial the application needs to write to system areas when it is installed. Once you have installed the application as an administrator you should be able to run it as a standard user.

We have recently been trying to make sure that everything in the graphical interface has a command equivalent, so if you spot anything that should do but doesn't please let us know. To see the macro commands as they are generated you can open the Data Manipulation->Command Interface window and ...

In case anyone else comes across this problem: It appears that there is a bug in MLwiN where it has problems generating estimates if some of the higher level units contain no observations after taking into account missing data. The workaround for this is to omit any records where a predictor has a ...

We are not sure why you are experiencing crashes with your original model, however if you can send an example worksheet with instructions on how to reproduce the crash we will look into it.

I've just tested this with the tutorial dataset by recoding some of the schools, and you're right. I get the following message before it tries to fit the model:

The data must be sorted according to the order of the model hierarchy: school student.

So I guess that eliminates that as a possible ...

MLwiN calculated residuals in a short form with one row per level 2 unit, i.e.

countid|residual
-------+---------
1 | 0.2
2 | 0.3

we then merge this back into the original data (if I remember correctly using the level identifier).

If your level identifier isn't unique for each unit of that ...

It's hard to say exactly what's going wrong here without the data, however we have seen this message before where each unit at a level didn't have a unique id ( http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=419 ). Could you please confirm whether each value of countid is unique to only one ...

We have done some investigation of this behaviour and it appears that if you use robust standard errors, set the estimation method to RIGLS and run the model with the Start button then you will get slightly incorrect results. This should be fixed in the next release of MLwiN.

The best documentation that I know of for using weights in MLwiN is the following:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/s ... ights.html