Conceptual aspects of attributable risk with recurrent disease events

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1107-1120

  Pichlmeier, Uwe ^a   Gefeller, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VOMITING;

EID: 0030983144     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970530)16:10<1107::AID-SIM530>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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