Strategies for handling normality assumptions in multi-level modeling: A case study estimating trajectories of health Utilities Index Mark 3 scores

Health Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bernier, Julie ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Asakawa, Keiko ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health status indicators; Health surveys; Health transition; Logistic models; Longitudinal studies; Multilevel growth model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857675519     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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