Hierarchical Models and Bayesian Structural Equation Models with Application in Health Services Research KU Leuven
Health Services Research applications often involve multivariate data which also have inherent complex hierarchical structures. Examples are patients clustered in medical centers, multiple clinical treatments in a patient , and so on but also in other research areas there are ample examples to find, such as children in schools, teeth clustered in mouths, teats clustered in udders, etc. Ignoring this correlation among observations in a cluster ...