Multilevel modelling of medical data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3291-3315

  Goldstein, Harvey ^a   Browne, William ^a   Rasbash, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex data structures; Mixed model; Multilevel model; Random effects model; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY HEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD GROWTH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; META ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037110566     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1264     Document Type: Article

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