Blomqvist revisited: How and when to test the relationship between level and longitudinal rate of change

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 1441-1452

  Edland, Steven D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034660082     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000615/30)19:11/12<1441::AID-SIM436>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Conference Paper

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