estimation of spatial multilevel model
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:18 am
Dear All,
I just joined this active forum. Thank you Charlton and George for all their help in this process. I’m a Ph.D. student and writing my dissertation at the moment. One of my essays aims to assess the factors influencing child malnutrition in Nepal. I have data on the Z-scores measured for total kids of 7500 (surveyed in 2006 and 2011 but not the panel). More than one kids were sampled from a household and these households are located in various districts of the country. I plan to model it as a three-level multilevel model: 1) Kids, 2) household, 3) District. At the district level, I’d like to take account of spatial error correlation across the neighboring districts. My dependent variable (Z-scores) is a continuous variable and not the discrete outcomes. Can you suggest me how to estimate such models? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ganesh
I just joined this active forum. Thank you Charlton and George for all their help in this process. I’m a Ph.D. student and writing my dissertation at the moment. One of my essays aims to assess the factors influencing child malnutrition in Nepal. I have data on the Z-scores measured for total kids of 7500 (surveyed in 2006 and 2011 but not the panel). More than one kids were sampled from a household and these households are located in various districts of the country. I plan to model it as a three-level multilevel model: 1) Kids, 2) household, 3) District. At the district level, I’d like to take account of spatial error correlation across the neighboring districts. My dependent variable (Z-scores) is a continuous variable and not the discrete outcomes. Can you suggest me how to estimate such models? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ganesh
