A-bomb data: Detection of bias in the Life Span Study cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1997, Pages 1519-1521

  Stewart, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A bomb survivors; Epidemiology; Radiation cancer

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 0031459620     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s61519     Document Type: Article

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