On the nature and analysis of clustered data

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-200

  Zyzanski, Stephen J ^a   Flocke, Susan A ^a   Dickinson, L Miriam ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis bias; Clustered data analysis; Intraclass correlation; Sample size estimation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 3242799833     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.197     Document Type: Editorial

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