| Xij: | the covariates (in this case the confounders) describing the patients characteristics of patient j in hospital i, including the constant term, |
| β: | the regression coefficients describing the effect of the covariates and the intercept, |
| θi: | the effect of hospital i, that is the coefficient with respect to some overall mean, drawn from a normal distribution with mean µ and variance |
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