An empirical comparison of several clustered data approaches under confounding due to cluster effects in the analysis of complications of coronary angioplasty

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 470-476

  Berlin, Jesse A ^a   Kimmel, Stephen E ^a   Ten Have, Thomas R ^a   Sammel, Mary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Confounding; Coronary angioplasty; Epidemiologic methods

Indexed keywords

HEART; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ANALYSIS OF BINARIES; BINARY RESPONSE; CLUSTER EFFECTS; CLUSTERED DATUM; COMBINED PROCEDURES; CONFOUNDING; CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; TYPE VARIABLES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033008916     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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