The use of sliding time windows for the exploratory analysis of temporal effects of smoking histories on lung cancer risk

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2185-2194

  Hauptmann, Michael ^a   Lubin, Jay H ^b   Rosenberg, Philip ^b   Wellmann, Jürgen ^c   Kreienbrock, Lothar ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RISK; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034734435     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0258(20000830)19:16<2185::AID-SIM528>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Review

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