Does published orthodontic research account for clustering effects during statistical data analysis?

European Journal of Orthodontics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-292

  Koletsi, Despina ^a   Pandis, Nikolaos ^b   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENTAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORTHODONTICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ORTHODONTICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861624094     PISSN: 01415387     EISSN: 14602210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejo/cjr122     Document Type: Article

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