Multilevel modelling of survey data: Impact of the two-level weights used in the pseudolikelihood

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 716-732

  Lucas, Jean Paul ^a,b   Sébille, Véronique ^b   Le Tertre, Alain ^c   Le Strat, Yann ^c   Bellanger, Lise ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b Universite de Nantes   (France)

^c French Institute for Public Health Surveillance InVS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

lead exposure data; level 2 weights; multilevel model; pseudolikelihood; public database; survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894522292     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.847404     Document Type: Article

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