Yang, Ji Seung; Cai, Li - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 39 (2014) 6, pp. 550-582
The main purpose of this study is to improve estimation efficiency in obtaining maximum marginal likelihood estimates of contextual effects in the framework of nonlinear multilevel latent variable model by adopting the Metropolis–Hastings Robbins–Monro algorithm (MH-RM). Results...