Revisiting Robinson: The perils of individualistic and ecologic fallacy
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Revisiting Robinson: the perils of individualistic and ecologic fallacy.
BACKGROUND W S Robinson made a seminal contribution by demonstrating that correlations for the same two variables can be different at the individual and ecologic level. This study reanalyzes and historically situates Robinson's influential study that laid the foundation for the primacy of analyzing data at only the individual level. METHODS We applied a binomial multilevel logistic model to a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn359