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Survival data are often clustered into groups, such as couples, families, communities, and geographical regions. Observations from same cluster usually share certain unobserved characteristics and as a result tend to be correlated. In multivariate proportional hazards model correlations among observations are considered. In analysis if associations among observations are ignored, standard error of the estimates of parameters of interest may be incorrect. The parameters estimates yielded by the multivariate proportional hazards model are very similar to those yielded by the standard hazards...

In order to reduce maternal mortality, the Bangladesh government has increased its commitment to institutional deliveries. We assess the determinants of home, private and public sector utilization for a delivery in our country. Cross sectional analyses of the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2007 dataset. Multinomial logistic regression is used to assess the determinants of the place o delivery. A majority delivered at home (n = 5090, 82.8%); with public and private facility deliveries accounting for 8% (n = 493) and 9.1% (n = 561) respectively. For the choice set of home delivery versus...