What is an effect modifier?;Quí es una variable modificadora del efecto?

Medicina clínica

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 297-302

  De Irala, Jokin ^a   Martínez González, Miguel Ángel ^a   Guillén Grima, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT;

EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY);

EID: 0035934692     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(01)72092-1     Document Type: Article

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