A unified approach to the analysis of case-distribution (case-only) studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE STUDY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; POPULATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033555494     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990115)18:1<1::AID-SIM961>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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