Design considerations for estimation of exposure effects on disease risk, using aggregate data studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1849-1858

  Sheppard, Lianne ^a   Prentice, Ross L ^b   Rossing, Mary Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIETARY FATS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029816409     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960915)15:17<1849::AID-SIM396>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Review

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