MLM reading group @ Penn

The MLM reading group met weekly during Fall '08 at IRCS

• Technical report: Hierarchical regression for language research [IRCS Technical Report 09-02]
• Paper on random effects in sociolinguistics: The consequences of multicollinearity among socioeconomic predictors of negative concord in Philadelphia
• Simpson's paradox simulation: [R] [csv]
• Negative concord in Philadelphia [name replaced w/ number]: [R] [csv]
• Quam and Swingley (submitted) [subject number has been scrambled]: [R] [csv]

Other Resources

• R, the best statistical environment
• R-lang mailing list for language researchers using R
• The best text: Gelman and Hill, and their authors' notes
• Also useful: Baayen (in press), while link continues to work
• Draft chapters of Bates (in preparation), Douglas Bates' book on the lme4 package for R
• Slides from the pre-CUNY WOMM conference session on multi-level modeling