Multilevel Multinomial Logistic Models

Prof. Maria Tackett

Apr 15, 2024

Announcements

• Quiz 05 Tue, April 16 ~ 9am - Thu, Apr 18 at noon
  • Covers readings, lectures, and content from March 25 - April 12
• Final project

  • Round 1 submission (optional) due April 25

  • Final submission due May 2

  • Next week classes for project meetings

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Topics

• Review covariance between observations for 3-level models

• Fit and interpret a multilevel multinomial logistic model

Covariance between observations

Model C in Jones (1991)

Recall Model C from Jones (1991)

Covariance structure between observations

• Write the variance in price for a single house.
• Write the covariance between two houses in the same district in the same time period.
• Write the covariance matrix for houses from the same time period in the same district.

• Write the covariance between two houses in different time periods in the same district.

Multilevel multinomial logistic models

Application exercise

📋 sta310-sp24.netlify.app/ae/lec-22-multinomial

References

Jones, Kelvyn. 1991. “Specifying and Estimating Multi-Level Models for Geographical Research.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 148–59.