[R-sig-ME] NAEP Data and lmer

[Roberts, J. Kyle]

Friends,

Have any of you used either lme or lmer to analyze NAEP data? I have done some things with HLM (the software), but wondered if there was already a set of routines for handling the whole "plausible values" thing in R. Also, for those of you familiar with the NAEP and HLM, does HLM just average the
results of the plausible values, or is the final estimate a maximized estimate based on the five plausible values?

Thanks,
Kyle

P.S. - Be on the watch for the first ever "North American Conference on Multilevel Analysis" coming late Spring 2008!!

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