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Fairly sophisticated studies in which individual and grouped data are collected can be considered ecologic depending on whether 1) the exposure variable is measured ecologically and 2) whether it is an average for a geographic area. In Part-1, we considered the Harvard Six-Cities Study. If we assume that the measures of fine particles in each city, even though they were obtained from fixed- |