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Chapter 5 Nonlinear multilevel models 5.1 Nonlinear models The models of Chapters 1-4 are linear in the sense that the response is a linear function of the parameters in the fixed part and the elements of are linear functions of the parameters in the random part. In many applications, however, it is appropriate to consider models where the fixed or random parts of the model, or both, contain nonlinear functions. For example, in the study of growth, Jenss and Bayley (1937) proposed the following function to describe the growth in height of young children (5.1) where is the age of the j-th