Quantifying explained variance in multilevel models: An integrative framework for defining R-squared measures

• Published in: Psychological methods Vol. 24; no. 3; p. 309
• Main Authors: Rights, Jason D, Sterba, Sonya K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Biostatistics - methods; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Educational Measurement - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Models, Statistical; Multilevel Analysis; Psychology - methods; Students - statistics & numerical data

Researchers often mention the utility and need for R-squared measures of explained variance for multilevel models (MLMs). Although this topic has been addressed by methodologists, the MLM R-squared literature suffers from several shortcomings: (a) analytic relationships among existing measures have...