An approach to estimating exposure-specific rates of breast cancer from a two-stage case-control study within a cohort

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 133-151

  Benichou, Jacques ^a   Byrne, Celia ^b   Gail, Mitchell ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0031024101     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19970130)16:2<133::aid-sim476>3.0.co;2-c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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