A nested approach to evaluating dose-response and trend

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 188-193

  Witte, John S ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON POLYP; DOSE RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC POLYPS; DIETARY FIBER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FRUIT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0030924392     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(96)00159-7     Document Type: Article

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