Arulampalam, Wiji; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy P. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 167 (2004) 1, pp. 157-178
From individual level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we use multilevel models to analyse the probability that an individual student will drop out of medical school. We find that academic preparedness-both in terms of previous subjects studied and...