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G Vallejo1, J R Fernández, R Secades
1University of Oviedo. gvallejo@correo.uniovi.es
Abstract:
Many social programs and programs for prevention of drug use are designed to affect a wide variety of targets, including individuals, families and neighborhoods, and organizations such as schools, companies, or hospitals. The nature of the intervention and the design of the particular study determine the choice of the appropriate unit of analysis in assessments of outcome. When the units of assignment and units of observation differ from one another, that is, when clusters of persons rather than persons are assigned at random to treatments, analyses performed at lower levels in the study hierarchy provide inefficient estimates of parameters and often lead to inappropriate significance tests. The present goal was to illustrate the applications of linear mixed models for evaluating statistically the effectiveness of programs.
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