Chapter11
Inference for Variance Components and Global Fit
In this chapterwhy variances need special treatment; Wald tests of variances and covariances; likelihood-ratio tests at the boundary and their mixture reference distributions; simulation-based tests of a random slope; information criteria; the family of R-squared measures; effect sizes; a model-comparison table.
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Cite this bookYu, H.-T. (2026). Multilevel modeling for psychology and the social sciences: Models, graphs, and practice (Web ed.). Chapter 11.