Power determination for geographically, clustered data using generalized estimating equations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1951-1960

  Hendricks, Scott A ^a   Wassell, James T ^a   Collins, James W ^a   Sedlak, Suzanne L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029791072     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960930)15:18<1951::aid-sim407>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

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