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Dear Ubaldo,

I think the first thing you should do is to write out the regression
equation that specifies how the individual-level response variable
should depend on the explanatory variables, including the dyadic ones.
That is not trivial and will require some thinking, but it is a modeling
decision that you can only make yourself!

Best wishes,

Tom


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> Hi all,
> I am a new member of SOCNET. I am asking your help because I am trying to
> develop e mulitilevel model in which I have:
>
> - An INDIVIDUAL-level response variable
> - Individual, relation(dyadic) and group level explanatory variables.
>
> I saw on Snijders and Bosker's book (1999), at chapter 11, that it is possible
> to build up a multilevel model (on the three levels: single relation, dyad and
> group) having a response variable at the RELATION level. In the way Snijders
> and Bosker suggest, it is possible to manage the sender and receiver effect.
> Would it be possible, conceptually and technically, to do the same having an
> INDIVIDUAL level response variable?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ubaldo.
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> Ubaldo Macchitella
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