Hierarchical multiple informants models: examining food environment contributions to the childhood obesity epidemic
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Hierarchical multiple informants models: examining food environment contributions to the childhood obesity epidemic.
Methods for multiple informants help to estimate the marginal effect of each multiple source predictor and formally compare the strength of their association with an outcome. We extend multiple informant methods to the case of hierarchical data structures to account for within cluster correlation. We apply the proposed method to examine the relationship between features of the food environment ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistics in Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0277-6715
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5967