The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey
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In this article, the authors describe the development and implementation of the multilevel sample design for the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a study of children, adults, families, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County.About:
This article is published in Social Science Research.The article was published on 2006-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Multilevel model.read more
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Assessing salivary cortisol in large-scale, epidemiological research.
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TL;DR: Examples of choices made, response rates obtained, and examples of results obtained from existing epidemiological cortisol studies are offered, as are suggestions for the modeling and interpretation of salivary cortisol data obtained in large-scale epidemiological research.
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Future directions in residential segregation and health research: a multilevel approach.
TL;DR: Recommendations are made to develop multilevel research designs to examine the effects of individual, neighborhood, and metropolitan-area factors on health outcomes and develop better conceptual frameworks of the pathways that may link various segregation dimensions to specific health outcomes.
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Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health
TL;DR: If group-level collective efficacy is indeed important in the regulation of individual-level net energy balance, it suggests that future interventions to control weight by addressing the social environment at the community level may be promising.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Douglas S. Massey , Nancy A. Denton
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A simulation study of sample size for multilevel logistic regression models
TL;DR: Simulation studies are used to assess the effect of varying sample size at both the individual and group level on the accuracy of the estimates of the parameters and variance components of multilevel logistic regression models, and suggest that low prevalent events require larger sample sizes.
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