A study of the specificaton of the log-log and log-additive models for the relationship between blood lead and environmental lead

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 426-434

  Jiang, Qi ^a   Succop, Paul A ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

IEUBK model; Lead exposure; Linear regression; Misspecification; Non linear regression; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010271527     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400437     Document Type: Article

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