{"id":8132,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hierarchical_data_structure_\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:22","slug":"hierarchical_data_structure_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hierarchical_data_structure_\/","title":{"rendered":"Hierarchical data structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dataare hierarchically structured, or can be said to have a multilevel structure,when observations can be grouped because they belong to different samplingunits, for example, observations about pupils can be grouped according to theirdifferent classes or schools. &nbsp;Where dataare hierarchically structured, it is conventional to refer to lower-level units(e.g., pupils) and higher-level units (e.g., classes) where the lower-levelunits are nested or grouped within the higher-level units.<\/p>\n<p>See Multilevel modeling (MLM<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dataare hierarchically structured, or can be said to have a multilevel structure,when observations can be grouped because they belong to different samplingunits, for example, observations about pupils can be grouped according to theirdifferent classes or schools. &nbsp;Where dataare hierarchically structured, it is conventional to refer to lower-level units(e.g., pupils) and higher-level units (e.g., classes) where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hierarchical_data_structure_\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hierarchical data structure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}