Identification of confounders in the assessment of the relationship between lkead exposure and child development

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-45

  Tong, Shilu ^a   Lu, Ying ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias (Epidemiology); Confounding factors (Epidemiology); Epidemiologic Research; Selection criteria

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEAD; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0035182459     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(00)00176-9     Document Type: Article

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