George Leckie
Research Associate
Contact Details
Room: 3.3
Telephone: 0117 33 10614
E-mail:g.leckie@bristol.ac.uk
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Research Interests
Methodological interests in multilevel modelling include: mixture models; variance models; cross-classified models; and multiple membership models.
Applications of multilevel modelling to social science research problems include: highlighting limitations of school league tables; measuring school effectiveness; assessing the quality of marking of educational tests; and modelling social and ethnic segregation among schools.
Affiliations
Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM)
Peer Reviewed Publications
- Rasbash, J., Leckie, G., Pillinger, R. and Jenkins, J. (2010) Children's educational progress: partitioning family, school and area effects, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A , 173, Part 4, 1-26.
- Leckie, G. (2009) The complexity of school and neighbourhood effects and movements of pupils on school differences in models of educational achievement, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 172, 537-554.
- Leckie, G. and Goldstein, H. (2009) The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 172, 835-851.
- Propper, C., Burgess, S., Bolster, A., Leckie, G., Jones, K. and Johnston, R. (2007) The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters, Urban Studies, 44, 393-415.
- Propper, C., Damiani, M., Leckie, G. and Dixon, J. (2007) Impact of patients’ socioeconomic status on the distance travelled for hospital admission in the English National Health Service, Journal of Health Service Research & Policy, 12, 153-159.
Other Publications (selected)
CMPO working papers
