Adjusting survival curves for confounders: A review and a new method

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1059-1068

  Nieto, F Javier ^a   Coresh, Josef ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

confounding factors (epidemiology); data display; epidemiologic methods; graphical analysis; proportional hazards models; prospective studies; regression analysis; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; COFFEE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EWING SARCOMA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029985202     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008670     Document Type: Article

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