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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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on June 01, 2005

Authors

Juan Merlo1, Basile Chaix, Min Yang, John Lynch, Lennart Råstam

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Sciences (Community Medicine), Malmö University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine (Campus Malmö), Lund University, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. juan.merlo@med.lu.se

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