Commentary: Balancing quantity and quality when designing epidemiological studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-59

  Phillips, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037320413     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg043     Document Type: Note

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