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

BACKGROUND: Multilevel analyses are ideally suited to assess the effects of ecological (higher level) and individual (lower level) exposure variables simultaneously. In applying such analyses to measures of ecologies in epidemiological studies, individual variables are usually aggregated into the hi...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Etsuji, Yamamoto, Eiji, Takao, Soshi, Kawachi, Ichiro, Subramanian, S. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051717