A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on September 01, 2005

Authors

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

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Medicine, Lund University Hospital, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. juan.merlo@smi.mas.lu.se

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