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Thursday, October 4, 2007

A new tool for the toolbelt

Well, the Fall Quarter has just begun so I guess I better get writing again.

We are waiting with great anticipation the release of the program SuperMix from Scientific Software International. This looks to be a very useful tool for data analysts.

Basically, SuperMix performs mixed-effects models for continuous, binary, ordinal, nominal and count response variables. It can handle two- and three-level models with random intercepts and random slopes. Although SuperMix is a new product, it is really just the combination of four programs written by Donald Hedeker and Robert Gibbons (both of University of Illinois, Chicage) that were previously available online. SuperMix combines MIXREG, MIXOR, MIXNO, and MIXPREG into one package with a consistent user interface.

The webpage for SuperMix indicates that its planned release is September 2007. Since it is a bit past that time, we are looking the the official release anytime now.

pbe

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for pointing out this great resource. I am excitedly awaiting its release. Here is the website: http://www.ssicentral.com/supermix/index.html

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