Review of methods for handling confounding by cluster and informative cluster size in clustered data

Clustered data are common in medical research. Typically, one is interested in a regression model for the association between an outcome and covariates. Two complications that can arise when analysing clustered data are informative cluster size (ICS) and confounding by cluster (CBC). ICS and CBC mea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Seaman, Shaun, Pavlou, Menelaos, Copas, Andrew
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320764/