A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

Merlo, Juan; Chaix, Basile; Ohlsson, Henrik; Beckman, Anders; Johnell, Kristina; Hjerpe, Per; Råstam, L; Larsen, K

doi:10.1136/jech.2004.029454

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A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

Published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health • Mar 13, 2006

Authors:

Juan Merlo

Basile Chaix

Henrik Ohlsson

Abstract

STUDY OBJECTIVE: In social epidemiology, it is easy to compute and interpret measures of variation in multilevel linear regression, but technical difficulties exist in the case of logistic regression. The aim of this study was to present measures of variation appropriate for the logistic case in a d...

Subject

Logistic regression

Medicine

Multilevel model

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