The application of multilevel modelling to dental caries data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4139-4149

  Burnside, G ^a   Pine, C M ^a   Williamson, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Dental caries; Multilevel modelling; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARNISH;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHLORHEXIDINE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DENTAL CARIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548656241     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2859     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Forgie AH, Paterson M, Pine CM, Pitts NB, Nugent ZJ. A randomised controlled trial of the caries-preventive efficacy of a chlorhexidine-containing varnish in high-caries-risk adolescents. Caries Research 2000; 34(5): 432-439.
2. Worthington H. Statistical methodology for clinical trials of caries prophylactic agents - current knowledge. International Dental Journal 1984; 34(4):278-284.
3. Ahn C, Jung SH, Donner A. Application of an adjusted chi2 statistic to site-specific data in observational dental studies. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2002; 29(1):79-82.
4. Hannigan A. Using survival methodologies in demonstrating caries efficacy. Journal of Dental Research 2004; 83(Spec No C):C99-C102.
5. Ananth CV, Kantor ML. Modeling multivariate binary responses with multiple levels of nesting based on alternating logistic regressions: an application to caries aggregation. Journal of Dental Research 2004; 83(10):776-781.
6. Maas CJM, Hox JH. Robustness issues in multilevel regression analysis. Statistica Neerlandica 2004; 58(2): 127-137.
7. Axtelius B, Soderfeldt B, Attstrom R. A multilevel analysis of factors affecting pocket probing depth in patients responding differently to periodontal treatment. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 1999; 26(2):67-76.
8. Gilthorpe MS, Griffiths GS, Maddick IH, Zamzuri AT. An application of multilevel modelling to longitudinal periodontal research data. Community Dental Health 2001; 18(2):79-86.
9. Gunsolley JC, Williams DA, Schenkein HA. Variance component modeling of attachment level measurements. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 1994; 21(4):289-295.
10. Nieri M, Muzzi L, Cattabriga M, Rotundo R, Cairo F, Pini Prato GP. The prognostic value of several periodontal factors measured as radiographic bone level variation: a 10-year retrospective multilevel analysis of treated and maintained periodontal patients. Journal of Periodontology 2002; 73(12):1485-1493.
11. Sterne JA, Johnson NW, Wilton JM, Joyston-Beehal S, Smales FC. Variance components analysis of data from periodontal research. Journal of Periodontal Research 1988; 23(2):148-153.
12. Tu YK, Gilthorpe MS, Griffiths GS, Maddick IH, Eaton KA, Johnson NW. The application of multilevel modeling in the analysis of longitudinal periodontal data - part II: changes in disease levels over time. Journal of Periodontology 2004; 75(1): 137-145.
13. Tu YK, Gilthorpe MS, Griffiths GS, Maddick IH, Eaton KA, Johnson NW. The application of multilevel modeling in the analysis of longitudinal periodontal data - part I: absolute levels of disease. Journal of Periodontology 2004; 75(1):127-136.
14. Rasbash J, Steele F, Browne W, Prosser B. A User's Guide to MLwiN Version 2.0. Centre for Multilevel Modelling: Bristol, 2005.
15. Browne W. MCMC Estimation in MLwiN Version 2.0. Centre for Multilevel Modelling: Bristol, 2005.
16. Snijders T, Bosker R. Multilevel Analysis. Sage: London, 1999.
17. Vermunt JK, Magidson J. Technical Guide for Latent GOLD 4.0: Basic and Advanced. Statistical Innovations Inc.: Belmont, MA, 2005.
18. Batchelor P, Sheiham A. Grouping of tooth surfaces by susceptibility to caries: a study in 5-16 year-old children. BMC Oral Health 2004; 4(1):2.
19. Goldstein H. Multilevel Statistical Models. Arnold: London, 2003.
20. Burnside G, Pine CM, Williamson PR. Statistical aspects of design and analysis of clinical trials for the prevention of caries, Caries Research 2006; 40(5):360-365.