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Conflated Random Slopes in Multilevel Analysis

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Bladimir Padilla *
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Lesa Hoffman
DOI:10.1080/00273171.2026.2673276delete
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Multilevel analysis is widely used for hierarchical data, enabling researchers to evaluate how individual- and cluster-level attributes relate to individual outcomes. A well-known concern involves conflated or smushed fixed slopes (Hoffman & Walters, Citation2022), which arise when a level-1 predictor that varies systematically across clusters is modeled with a single fixed effect, thereby blending its within- and between-cluster components.
Keywords:
Multilevel analysis
Conflated fixed slopes
Random slopes
Hierarchical data
Level-1 predictor

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Multivariate Behavioral Research
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university of iowa
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