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...urvival (i.e. binary response) in patients affected by heart failure (the court consists of n=536 subjects), admitted in J different hospitals. The idea is to explain survival by means of linear predictor of relevant covariates with a random effect on grouping factor, represented by hospital of dmission. The main goal would be the reconstruction of random effect density, because we are interest in founding (if present) groups of "similar" hospitals. Now, I found some trouble in doing this beause I don't understand how outputs "ss", "ncluster" and "mub&quot...