Table 5. Model information table including a display of information criteria, deviance test results and estimated variance components for every model building step including fixed slopes.
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimation Method | ML | 32635.1 | 32365.2 | 32349.8 | 32313.9 | 32305.3 | ||||
| REML | 32399.1 | 32360.9 | ||||||||
| AIC | 32643.1 | 32395.2 | 32387.8 | 32369.9 | 32373.3 | |||||
| AICC | 32643.1 | 32395.4 | 32388.1 | 32370.4 | 32374.0 | |||||
| BIC | 32651.8 | 32427.8 | 32429.1 | 32430.8 | 32447.2 | |||||
| Δ-deviance | 269.90 | 15.40 | 38.20 | 8.60 | ||||||
| df | 11 | 4 | 9 | 6 | ||||||
| p-Value | - | .000 | .004 | .000 | .1974 | |||||
| τ2 (S.E.) [95%-CI] |
145.02 (32.10) [98.10; 236.08] |
p < .001 | 69.53 (16.35) [46.02; 117.16] |
p < .001 | 50.76 (12.87) [32.65; 89.63] |
p < .001 | 51.6365 (13.04) [33.27; 90.91] |
p < .001 | ||
| σ2 (S.E.) [95%-CI] |
1136.71 (31.99) [1076.54; 1202.11] |
p < .001 | 918.43 (22.83) [875.28; 964.86] |
p < .001 | 918.45 (22.83) [875.30; 964.89] |
p < .001 | 914.92 (22.76) [871.90; 961.21] |
p < .001 | ||
| ICC | .113 | .070 | .052 | .053 |
Table notes. ML–(Full Information) Maximum Likelihood -2 log likelihood; REML–Restricted Maximum Likelihood -2 log likelihood; AIC–Akaike Information Criterion; AICC–small sample size correction for AIC; BIC–Bayesian Information Criterion (all AIC/AICC/BIC values refer to ML estimates); all information criteria can be interpreted in the metric of “smaller is better”; (S.E.) Standard errors in parentheses; [95%-CI] 95%-confidence interval in parentheses.