Presenting statistical uncertainty in trends and dose-response relations

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1077-1086

  Greenland, Sander ^a   Michels, Karin B ^b,c   Robins, James M ^c   Poole, Charles ^d   Willett, Walter C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometry; Dose response; Epidemiologic methods; Relative risk; Smoothing; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033564414     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009761     Document Type: Review

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