The estimation of lifetime risk and average age at onset of a disease using a multivariate exponential hazard rate model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 397-410

  Fraser, Gary E ^a   Shavlik, David J ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ONSET AGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033611725     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990228)18:4<397::aid-sim24>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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