Collapsing ordered outcome categories: A note of concern

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-424

  Strömberg, Ulf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

data interpretation; epidemiologic methods; statistical; statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029764433     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008944     Document Type: Article

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