Clarifying the Use of Aggregated Exposures in Multilevel Models: Self-Included vs. Self-Excluded Measures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Suzuki, Etsuji ^a   Yamamoto, Eiji ^b   Takao, Soshi ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Subramanian, S V ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; SELF EXCLUDED MODEL; SELF INCLUDED MODEL; SOCIAL CAPITAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORKPLACE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84870914532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051717     Document Type: Article

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