Considering the design effect in cluster sampling

Yousef Alimohamadi^{1

2}, Mojtaba Sepandi^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Health Research Center, Lifestyle Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Yousef Alimohamadi et al. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2019.

. 2019;11(1):78.

doi: 10.15171/jcvtr.2019.14. Epub 2019 Feb 17.

Yousef Alimohamadi^{1

2}, Mojtaba Sepandi^{3

4}

¹ Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Health Research Center, Lifestyle Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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