Modelling age-specific risk: Application to dementia

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1973-1988

  Commenges, Daniel ^a   Letenneur, Luc ^a   Joly, Pierre ^a   Alioum, Ahmadou ^a   Dartigues, Jean François ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031670001     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980915)17:17<1973::AID-SIM892>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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