Assignment to menopausal status and estimation of age at menopause for women with missing or invalid data - A probabilistic approach with weighting factors in a large-scale epidemiological study

Maturitas

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-46

  Kroke, Anja ^a   Schulz, Mandy ^a   Hoffmann, Kurt ^a   Bergmann, Manuela M ^a   Boeing, Heiner ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiological studies; Menopausal status; Probabilistic approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; ONSET AGE; OVARIECTOMY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035980314     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(01)00228-6     Document Type: Article

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