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(More customer reviews)This isn't the most "introductory" introduction to multilevel modeling, but it's an excellent book. Heck and Thomas present multilevel models from an integrated structural equation modeling perspective, in the vein of Muthen and the Mplus software or Skrondal & Rabe-Hesketh and the GLLAM software.
The authors illustrate how traditional multilevel models, such as those estimated with the HLM software, can be extended to models with latent predictors and latent outcomes, and they describe advanced extensions (e.g., finite-mixture models and models with categorical indicators) as well as similarities with other methods (e.g., latent growth curve models). It is nice to find a book that is both conceptually integrative and practical.
If you plan to use Mplus for your multilevel analyses, this is the single best book to buy. If you're new to multilevel models, you should start with other books (such as Multilevel Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)) before digging into this one.
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