Estimating the generalized impact fraction from case-control data

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1170-1176

  Drescher, Karsten ^a   Becher, Heiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attributable fraction; Attributable risk; Case control study; Epidemiologic methods; Generalized attributable fraction; Generalized impact fraction; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION;

ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; ATTRIBUTABLE RISKS; CASE-CONTROL; CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CONTROL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GENERALIZED ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; GENERALIZED IMPACT FRACTION; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030821531     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533576     Document Type: Article

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