TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leyland, Alastair H.
AU  - Groenewegen, Peter P.
AB  - This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research. The authors begin with a compelling argument for the importance of researchers in these fields having an understanding of MLA to be able to judge not only the growing body of research that uses it, but also to recognise the limitations of research that did not use it. The volume also guides the analysis of real-life data sets by introducing and discussing the use of the multilevel modelling software MLwiN, the statistical package that is used with the example data sets. Importantly, the book also makes the training material accessible for download – not only the datasets analysed within the book, but also a freeware version of MLwiN to allow readers to work with these datasets. The book’s practical review of MLA comprises: Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological background Statistical background The modelling process and presentation of research Tutorials with example datasets Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research: Health in Context is a practical and timely resource for public health and health services researchers, statisticians interested in the relationships between contexts and behaviour, graduate students across these disciplines, and anyone interested in utilising multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis. “Leyland and Groenewegen’s wealth of teaching experience makes this book and its accompanying tutorials especially useful for a practical introduction to multilevel analysis.” ̶ Juan Merlo, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Lund University “Comprehensive and insightful. A must for anyone interested in the applications of multilevel modelling to population health”. ̶ S. (Subu) V. Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography, Harvard University ; For researchers and students with a basic mastery of ordinary least squares and logistic regression Discusses multilevel analysis in context of public health, health services research, and epidemiology Includes an online component where users can download the datasets analyzed in the book, and also a freeware version of the multilevel modelling software MLwiN ​​​​​​​Can be used as part of a course on multilevel modelling, or as a self-training text
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-34801-4
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200615_9783030348014_38
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Health Services Research
KW  - Research Methodology
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
KW  - Health Sciences
KW  - Sociological Methods
KW  - Statistics in Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
KW  - MLwiN
KW  - epidemiological methods
KW  - health services research methodology
KW  - multilevel analysis
KW  - multilevel modelling
KW  - statistical methods for public health research
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Public health & preventive medicine
KW  - Health systems & services
KW  - Social research & statistics
KW  - Epidemiology & medical statistics
KW  - Probability & statistics
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/013159f2-d58c-4af4-a368-d1c386426fca/2020_Book_MultilevelModellingForPublicHe.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39565
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2020
TI  - Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research : Health in Context
ER  - 
