Joint effects on cancer risk of age at childbirth, time since birth and attained age: Circumventing the problem of collinearity

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1261-1277

  Albrektsen, Grethe ^a   Heuch, Ivar ^a   Kvåle, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDBIRTH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NULLIPARA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; PARITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 0033617669     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990530)18:10<1261::AID-SIM119>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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