Different disease rates in two populations: How much is due to differences in risk factors?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2543-2554

  Lele, Chitra ^a   Whittemore, Alice S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STATISTICS; CAUCASIAN; NEGRO; OVARY CANCER; POPULATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030704604     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971130)16:22<2543::AID-SIM691>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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