Combining data from primary and ancillary surveys to assess the association between neighborhood-level characteristics and health outcomes: The multi-ethnic study of artherosclerosis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 5745-5763

  Sanchez B N ^a   Raghunathan, T E ^a   Diez Roux, A V ^a   Zhu, Y ^b   Lee, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancillary survey; Maximum likelihood; Social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 57049164321     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3384     Document Type: Article

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