Multilevel models and health economics

Health Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 561-575

  Rice, Nigel ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fixed and random effects; Hierarchical models; Multilevel models

Indexed keywords

HEALTH ECONOMICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0031449961     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199711)6:6<561::AID-HEC288>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Review

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