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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some updated #Stata resources for the new academic year.
* agrogan1.github.io/Stata/two-pa...
* agrogan1.github.io/Stata/data-v...

Two Page Stata

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The University of Michigan School of Social Work is launching a new and innovative 30-credit Master of Arts degree in #SocialImpact Leadership."

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The School of Social Work Announces New Master’s Degree in Social Impact Leadership | University of Michigan School of Social Work

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 25

Now available both in print and online: books.google.com/books/about/...

Multilevel Thinking

Multilevel models have become very common in social research, however, there are aspects of these models that are explored only infrequently. Those that rarely make their way into courses and training...

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 24

Why care about these technicalities?

Interactions are one of our major statistical tools for examining similarity or difference in statistical relationships across groups, identities, or contexts.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interactions in logistic regression can be particularly challenging to work with: agrogan1.github.io/newstuff/cat...

Interactions in Logistic Regression

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 21

Both main effects and interactions need to be interpreted together:
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Interactions And Main Effects Need To Be Interpreted Together – Andrew Grogan-Kaylor

A Mathematical Perspective

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interactions are often thought of as encompassing a main effect (x), and a moderator (m), but because of the commutative property of multiplication, interactions are essentially symmetric: agrogan1.github.io/posts/intera...

Interactions Are Symmetric – Andrew Grogan-Kaylor

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 21

For many models, adding a main effect and interaction for group can be seen as giving each group its own regression line with its own intercept and its own slope:

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Interactions and Moderation – Andrew Grogan-Kaylor

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jul 21

A thread on #interactions and #moderation.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jun 21

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How Does Context Shape Caregivers' Psychosocial Stimulation?

A Study of Georgia and Mongolia

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jun 13

I argue that multilevel modeling is a principled way to explore human variation and commonality.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jun 13

I try to provide a tutorial for applied researchers, and to bring "down to earth" some of the more advanced ideas about multilevel modeling that I see in the methodological literature, but rarely see in applied work.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jun 13

My new book, Multilevel Thinking, is now published in Electronic version by Oxford University Press: academic.oup.com/book/60530. #stata #rstats #julialang

Multilevel Thinking: Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research

Abstract. This book introduces the ideas of multilevel modeling. Chapters cover: the cross-sectional model; the longitudinal model; models for binary outco

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · May 18

UM News release about our research: news.umich.edu/violence-bet.... See also: globalfamilies.quarto.pub/spillover-of...

Violence between parents or in the community increases risk of child punishment

Exposure to higher rates of violence in the larger social context may spill over to family violence, including caregivers' use of physical child abuse, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Apr 23

DOI for the Open Access article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Redirecting

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just similarity and difference across groups or countries, which I think, multilevel models let us start to see. Simply the size of the random slopes. Now that I’ve written the book, I need to figure out even better ways to quantify this.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Apr 13

I’d like to share that my book, Multilevel Thinking: Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research is available for pre-order at Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

* Includes appendices for estimating MLMs in #Stata, #Rstats, and #Julialang.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Apr 13

We've published a new paper: Spillover of Macro-Level Violence to Parental Physical Abuse of Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The paper should be online shortly, but in the meantime, we've prepared a scrollable summary here: globalfamilies.quarto.pub/spillover-of...

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thank you for the kind words!

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Mar 17

ArcGIS StoryMap visualization of our new article on parenting of orphans: arcg.is/1HjKyW2

Orphan Discipline and Child Neglect

An Analysis from 48 Countries

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Mar 16

Same information as a treemap.

treemap showing that most of the world's children are not protected from physical punishment

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Jan 29

Cartogram showing that most of the world's children are not protected from #corporal_punishment #rstats #gis

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Dec 28

“Be Less Wrong”, the importance of multivariate, quantitative thinking, especially when thinking about treatments, programs, and interventions for social issues: globalfamilies.quarto.pub/be-less-wrong/
#closeread #quarto

One model accounts for group, while the other does not.

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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · Dec 17

I experimented with using the new #closeread (closeread.dev/gallery/) extension for #Quarto to share the results of an article we published last year on parenting and child development in 60 countries: globalfamilies.quarto.pub/parenting/

What Should Parents Do?

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