A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon

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P356DOI10.1136/JECH.2004.023473
P932PMC publication ID1757045
P698PubMed publication ID15911637
P5875ResearchGate publication ID7829347

P2093author name stringJohn Lynch
Min Yang
Juan Merlo
Basile Chaix
Lennart Råstam
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P433issue6
P921main subjectstatisticsQ12483
epidemiologyQ133805
P304page(s)443-449
P577publication date2005-06-01
P1433published inJournal of Epidemiology and Community HealthQ3428712
P1476titleA brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon
P478volume59

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