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I ran a linear mixed model (LMM) for my nested data and would like to check for the homogeneity of variance assumption.

As there is no a button for checking the homogeneity of variance at the LMM menu, I am wondering can I used the residuals generated from the model and ran a levene test of variance?

However, the residuals generated got negative value and seemed that levene test of variance only allow positive value?

Can I transform the residuals in order to conduct a levene test of variance, or should I transform the dependent variable?

I am really confuse and thank you so much for all the help.

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  • $\begingroup$ Levene and Brown-Forsythe tests you will find in Explore procedure (see there button Plots). $\endgroup$
    – ttnphns
    Oct 2, 2014 at 4:57
  • $\begingroup$ I found levene in Explore, but I have negative residuals, should I covert it to absolute value before carrying out the test? If the result is significant (p=0.47) but pretty close to 0.05, can I just accept homogeneity of variance, or should I carry out transformation? And I am confuse whether I should transform the residuals or the raw data? Thank you so much! $\endgroup$
    – Kam
    Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11

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There is no need to conduct a formal test. Just inspect the plots of residuals vs fitted values and perhaps an autocorrelation plot, and make an assessment based on those. A histogram of residuals and a QQ plot are also useful for assessing normality.

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