A new strategy for evaluating the impact of epidemiologic risk factors for cancer with application to melanoma

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 415-426

  Begg, Colin B ^a   Satagopan, Jaya M ^a   Berwick, Marianne ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Coefficient of variation; Empirical Bayes estimation; Relative risk; Standardized incidence ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032382774     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473691     Document Type: Article

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