Day 11 Hierarchical (Multilevel) Designs and their implementation in R

June 17th, 2026

11.1 Review

Below is a general description of the mindmap for this course.

Figure 11.1: Mind map

11.2 Split-plot designs

11.3 General advice to model data with some type of structure

• 1. Draw a picture of the data generating process, focusing on the structure (blueprint) of the data
• 2. Define the groups of similar observations (in terms of structure)
• 3. Write out a statistical model
• 4. Fit the model to the data and perform model checks