Causality, measurement error and multicollinearity in epidemiology

Environmetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 441-451

  Zidek, James V ^a   Wong, Hubert ^a   Le, Nhu D ^b   Burnett, Rick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

causality; environment; errors in variables; longitudinal analysis; multicollinearity; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029759361     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199607)7:4<441::AID-ENV226>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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