TY - JOUR AU - Ni, Haifang AU - Groenwold, Rolf H. H. AU - Nielen, Mirjam AU - Klugkist, Irene PY - 2018 DA - 2018/08/06 TI - Prediction models for clustered data with informative priors for the random effects: a simulation study JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 83 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Random effects modelling is routinely used in clustered data, but for prediction models, random effects are commonly substituted with the mean zero after model development. In this study, we proposed a novel approach of including prior knowledge through the random effects distribution and investigated to what extent this could improve the predictive performance. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0543-5 DO - 10.1186/s12874-018-0543-5 ID - Ni2018 ER -