Using ecological data to estimate a regression model for individual data: The association between arsenic in drinking water and incidence of skin cancer

Environmental Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 82-93

  Guo, How Ran ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Hu, Howard ^b,c   Monson, Richard R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Ecologic studies; Epidemiology; Skin cancer; Water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; CANCER; DRINKING WATER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; TAIWAN; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0031775105     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3863     Document Type: Article

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