Confounding due to cluster in multicenter studies - Causes and cures

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 195-210

  Localio, A Russell ^a   Berlin, Jesse A ^a   Ten Have, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Clustered data; Confounding; Multicenter studies

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; INSURANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0142124811     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025897811143     Document Type: Article

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