Multi-country health surveys: Are the analyses misleading?

Current Medical Research and Opinion

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 857-863

  Masood, Mohd ^a,b   Reidpath, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Design based approach; Multi country survey; Multi level analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; FULL TEXT DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MULTICOUNTRY HEALTH SURVEY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84899080864     PISSN: 03007995     EISSN: 14734877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1185/03007995.2013.875466     Document Type: Article

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