Multilevel analytical approaches in social epidemiology: Measures of health variation compared with traditional measures of association

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 550-552

  Merlo, J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREMATURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0042267814     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.8.550     Document Type: Editorial

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