multilevel (version 2.7)

mix.data: Randomly mix grouped data

Description

Called by graph.ran.mean (and potentially other functions) to randomly mix data and create new pseudo group ID variables. Pseudo group IDs match real group IDs in terms of size.

Usage

mix.data(x,grpid)

Arguments

x

A matrix or vector containing data to be randomly sorted.

grpid

A vector containing a group identifier.

Value

newid

A pseudo group ID.

grpid

The real group ID.

x

The values in x arranged as belonging to newid.

References

Bliese, P. D., & Halverson, R. R. (2002). Using random group resampling in multilevel research. Leadership Quarterly, 13, 53-68.

See Also

graph.ran.mean

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(bh1996)
mix.data(x=bh1996[c(1:10,200:210,300:310),2:3],
         grpid=bh1996$GRP[c(1:10,200:210,300:310)])
# }