TO: Students in CJ 605
FROM: R. B. Taylor
DATE: 2/22/06
RE: mini midterm

Terms for the mini midterm

The mini midterm will be held 3/1 (except for those going to SRCD or ACJS) and will include the following.

a. You will be asked to either define terms or match terms to definitions (have not yet decided which; may be a mix). The relevant terms include what we have had so far conceptually, plus everything in the ANOVA and ANCOVA HLM submodels. Relevant terms which might appear probably will include some of  the following.

ecological fallacy
individual fallacy
contextual fallacy
T00 (Tau nought nought)            under both ANCOVA and ANCOVA model
sigma squared                            "
G00 (Gamma nought nought)    "
U0j (U nought j)                        "
rij ( r i j)                                    "
intraclass correlation                  
reliability                                    "
Chi square test of U0j                "
B1j (beta 1 j)
group mean centering
grand mean centering

b. You will see some HLM output, or a section from an HLM table, and be asked to interpret