Simulation study of the effects of excluding early deaths on risk factor-mortality analyses in the presence of confounding due to occult disease: The example of body mass index

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 132-142

  Allison, David B ^a   Heo, Moonseong ^a   Flanders, Dana W ^b   Faith, Myles S ^a   Carpenter, Kenneth M ^c   Williamson, David F ^d  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Confounding; Cox Regression; Gompertz Distribution; Logistic Regression; Survival Analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032968281     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(98)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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