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Exemplifying the general applicability of multilevel modeling for the analysis of contexts and their covariates, the three subsequent chapters in Part 2 examine how social contexts can influence human development, interpersonal violence, and technological change. Although the multilevel models of these chapters each have two levels, their constituent level-2 and level-1 units range from the very macro to the very micro. The first of these chapters studies individual countries that are grouped by the regions of the world; the second, repeated measures taken at different times that are grouped by their country; and the third, measures on employees that are grouped by their organizational unit. A similar multilevel study design unifies these diverse studies: the response variable and the covariance parameters are thought to depend on a number of antecedent factors (i.e., the contexts and their covariates), as illustrated by the following diagram.
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Smith, R.B. (2011). Contexts and Covariates. In: Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9855-9_6
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