Methods for Multilevel Ordinal Data in Prevention Research

Prevention Science

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 997-1006

  Hedeker, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Longitudinal data; Proportional odds model

Indexed keywords

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RESEARCH;

PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RESEARCH;

EID: 84942505831     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-014-0495-x     Document Type: Article

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