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We used residual plots to investigate assumptions of normality of residuals required by the multilevel models.
29 We used residual plots to investigate the assumptions of normality of residuals required by the multilevel models.
In our previous study (Molitor et al. 2006), the unified Bayesian framework for the multilevel analysis improved the estimates of the effect of NO2 exposure on lung function in children with incomplete outcome measures by fitting the multilevel models as a unit.
This relationship was confirmed by the multilevel model fitted to the data and summarized in Table 2.
Initially we fitted a baseline variance component or empty multilevel model (no independent variables) for each of the dependent variables, followed by the multilevel model with independent variables.
A comparison study of a multilevel and a spatial mixed model for investigating place effects on health outcomes by [ 22] showed a smaller deviance for spatial mixed model than a multilevel model, and that the Moran's I statistic showed residual spatial autocorrelation unaccounted for by the multilevel model.
We investigated variance at class and school level by including these in the multilevel models.
In Table 4, associations of prepregnancy weight and GWG with outcomes are examined by using the estimates from the multilevel models.
Table 1 displays the SIIs for each measure of socioeconomic position stratified by welfare regime (results from the multilevel models are found in Supplementary data available in Age and Ageing online, Appendix S3).
Differences in growth trajectories by maternal ED groups (AN, BN and AN+BN) were estimated by fitting interaction terms in the multilevel models between the maternal ED group and the constant term (representing birth length, PI at birth or BMI at age 2) and each of the polynomial terms.
The aim of our study is the inter-practice variation, which is estimated by the between practice variation in the multilevel models.
