Udari N Colombage, Aditi A Prasad, Ilana Ackerman, Sze-Ee Soh
Falls prevention in people with breast cancer: a survey of current physiotherapist practices
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multilevel models gained immense popularity across almost every discipline due presence hierarchy data phenomena paper present systematic review adoption application multilevel models important information reported results generated use models review performed searching google scholar original research articles application multilevel models published 2010 2020 search strategy involved topics multilevel models hierarchical linear models mixed models hierarchy search placed emphasis application hierarchical models discipline excluded software methodological development related articles total 121 articles initially obtained search results however 65 articles met inclusion criteria review 65 articles reviewed 462 related healthepidemiology 154 education psychology 169 social life majority articles 785 twolevel models studies modelled univariate responses however modelled one response modelled separately moreover 831 crosssectional design 92 62 longitudinal repeated measures respectively moreover little half 554 articles reported intraclass correlation measure articles indicated response variable distribution 477 normally distributed 585 articles reported estimation methods used bayesian 20 mle 185 model validation measures statistical software reported 708 908 articles respectively increase utilization multilevel modelling last decade could attributed presence clustered hierarchically correlated data structures need improvement area measurement reporting intraclass correlation parameter estimation variable selection measures improve quality application multilevel models integration spatial effects multilevel models limited needs explored future