Rainfall is a critical component of climate governing vegetation growth and production, forage availability and quality for herbivores. However, reliable rainfall measurements are not always available ...

This study examined the differing conclusions one may come to depending upon the type of analysis chosen, hierarchical linear modeling or ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. To illustrate this ...

Our results show that a child was more likely to be a case of diarrhoea presenting to the health service (as measured by the ORs adjusted in an multivariate hierarchical model) if they (i) lived under ...