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Chapter 2of the functions present <strong>in</strong> MLwiN but without its easily accessible user<strong>in</strong>terface.The st<strong>and</strong>ard statistical software packages allow multilevel <strong>modell<strong>in</strong>g</strong> to someextent. Most notably SAS, allows the estimation of all models presented <strong>in</strong> thisdocument (Littell, Milliken, Stroup, <strong>and</strong> Wolf<strong>in</strong>ger, 1996). However, it does notenable the detailed diagnostics tailored to these models. SPSS only allows theestimation of l<strong>in</strong>ear multilevel models. An excellent collection of reviews how toimplement multilevel models <strong>in</strong> a wide variety of statistical software can befound on the MLwiN website (www.mlw<strong>in</strong>.com/softrev/<strong>in</strong>dex.html).With<strong>in</strong> the present chapter on multilevel <strong>modell<strong>in</strong>g</strong>, there is a build-up of<strong>in</strong>formation about the use of MLwiN. The chapters on l<strong>in</strong>ear models form an<strong>in</strong>troduction to MLwiN <strong>and</strong> some of its possibilities as well. They conta<strong>in</strong> verydetailed <strong>in</strong>formation how to address the functions <strong>and</strong> how to <strong>in</strong>terpret theoutput. In later chapters this <strong>in</strong>formation is more compressed. This all said, thefocus of this document is not to learn to deal with MLwiN (for all details thereader is referred to the MLwiN manual by Rasbash, Steel, Brown, & Prosser,2004) but to get a practical <strong>in</strong>troduction to the multilevel <strong>analysis</strong> of road safetydata.

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