Impact of small group size on neighbourhood influences in multilevel models

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 688-695

  Theall, Katherine P ^a   Scribner, Richard ^a   Broyles, Stephanie ^b   Yu, Qingzhao ^a   Chotalia, Jigar ^a   Simonsen, Neal ^a   Schonlau, Matthias ^c   Carlin, Bradley P ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Pennington Biomedical Center   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUP SIZE; LINEARITY; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BODY MASS INDEX; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960269705     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.097956     Document Type: Article

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