Controlling for continuous confounders in epidemiologic research

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 429-434

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Blettner, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Confounding; Epidemiologic methods; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030968266     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199707000-00014     Document Type: Article

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