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Published in final edited form as: Stat Modelling. 2007 Jul 1;7(2):191–213. doi: 10.1177/1471082X0700700205

Table 2.

Model labels and descriptions

Model	Model description
Model I	Full MCAR (α, Λ)
Model II	MCAR (α, Λ) Without Patient Frailties {u₍_i_,_j₎}
Model III	Full Spatial Independence Model
Model IV	Spatial Independence Model Without Patient Frailties {u₍_i_,_j₎}