Health in Context - About the course
Contents of the course
The course contains introductory lectures, computer classes, individual consultation and two assignments.
Objectives
- to gain an understanding of the relevance of multilevel modelling for public health and health services research;
- to gain a basic insight into the theoretical backgrounds of relationships between (macro-level) contexts and (individual-level) behaviour;
- to gain an understanding of the methodological and basic statistical backgrounds of multilevel modelling; and
- to learn to work with the multilevel modelling software MLwiN.
Preliminary requirements
The course is aimed at researchers who understand and are used to apply basic statistical analysis, such as multiple linear regression, logistic regression and/or analysis of variance.
The computer classes will use MLwiN, a specialist multilevel modelling package. No previous knowledge of MLwiN will be assumed.