Bias in methods for deriving standardized morbidity ratio and attributable fraction estimates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 131-141

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometry; Epidemiologic; methods; Risk

Indexed keywords

BIAS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY;

BIOMETRY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PROBABILITY; RISK; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021222271     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780030206     Document Type: Article

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