Empirical comparisons of proportional hazards, poisson, and logistic regression modeling of occupational cohort data

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-47

  Callas, Peter W ^a,b   Pastides, Harris ^a   Hosmer, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistic models; Occupational cohort studies; Poisson models; Proportional hazards models; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0031986072     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199801)33:1<33::AID-AJIM5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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