Analysis of correlated data in human biomonitoring studies. The case of high sister chromatid exchange frequency cells

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 438, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-21

  Bonassi, Stefano ^a   Fontana, Vincenzo ^a   Ceppi, Marcello ^a   Barale, Roberto ^b   Biggeri, Annibale ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlated data analysis; High frequency cell; Random effects model; SCE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 0032907026     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(98)00153-3     Document Type: Article

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