The importance of critically interpreting simulation studies

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 453-456

  Maldonado, George ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0031184508     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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