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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Clustering Upper Level Units in Multilevel Models for Ordinal Data

verfasst von : Leonardo Grilli, Agnese Panzera, Carla Rampichini

Erschienen in: Classification, (Big) Data Analysis and Statistical Learning

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We consider an explorative method for unsupervised clustering of upper level units in a two-level hierarchical setting. The idea lies in applying a density-based clustering algorithm to the predicted random effects obtained from a multilevel cumulative logit model. We illustrate the proposed approach throughout the analysis of data from European Social Survey about political trust in European countries.

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Metadaten
Titel
Clustering Upper Level Units in Multilevel Models for Ordinal Data
verfasst von
Leonardo Grilli
Agnese Panzera
Carla Rampichini
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55708-3_15

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