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Clustered standard errors vs. multilevel modeling?

I've skimmed through several books (Raudenbush & Bryk, Snijders & Bosker, Gelman & Hill, etc.) and several articles (Gelman, Jusko, Primo & Jacobsmeier, etc.), and I still haven't ...
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standard error of the mean for clustered data

I have a dataset with clustered data (observations within groups) and would like to make some descriptive plots. Now, I am a little bit lost on how to present the dispersion of the data (what kind of ...
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102 views

Incremental hierarchical clustering

I have an online k-means algorithm following this scheme: ...
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How to derive a distance function based on multiple variables for cluster analysis?

I am not a statistician, so please excuse my lack of statistics knowledge/terminology. I have bunch of network nodes that I want to run cluster analysis on and identify clusters. So as far as I ...
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Variant of discriminant analysis for known multiple independent classifications?

I have a large data set: over 100,000 data points, each with 60 dimensions. I want to display the data in 2D to visibly maximize the separation between classes, which I know for each point. I asked a ...
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Does a distance have to be a “metric” for an hierarchical clustering to be valid on it?

Let us say that we define a distance, which is not a metric, between N items. Based on this distance we then use an Agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Can we use each of the known algorithm ...
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Inversions in hierarchical clustering

I'm using heatmap.2 to cluster my data, using the centroid method for clustering and the maximum method for calculating the distance matrix: ...
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912 views

Clustered standard errors and multi-level models

Stata allows estimating clustered standard errors in models with fixed effects but not in models random effects? Why is this? By clustered standard errors, I mean clustering as done by stata's ...