A comparison between traditional methods and multilevel regression for the analysis of multicenter intervention studies

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 341-350

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Van Breukelen, Gerard J P ^b   Berger, Martijn P F ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fixed effects regression; Mixed effects regression; Multilevel regression; Naive regression; Nested data; Summary measures

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TYPES OF STUDY;

EID: 0038289251     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00007-6     Document Type: Review

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