The intra-class correlation was low, so students within the same class were not very similar. 组内相关系数很低,因此同一个班级里的学生并没有非常相似。
Because the intra-class correlation was high, we used a multilevel model to account for clustering by hospital when analyzing patient outcomes. 由于组内相关系数较高,我们在分析患者结局时使用了多层模型,以处理按医院聚类带来的影响。