Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-178

  Jackson, Christopher ^a,b,c   Best, Nicky ^a   Richardson, Sylvia ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardio vascular disease; Contextual effects; Data synthesis; Ecological bias; Hierarchical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149102302     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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