Sensitivity of the relation between cumulative magnetic field exposure and brain cancer mortality to choice of monitoring data grouping scheme

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 442-445

  Kromhout, Hans ^a   Loomis, Dana P ^a,b   Kleckner, Robert C ^b   Savitz, David A ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cancer; EMF; Exposure assessment; Exposure response relation; Sensitivity; Workers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030971348     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199707000-00016     Document Type: Article

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