An analysis of correlated multivariate binary data: Application to familial cancers of the ovary and breast

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-429

  Betensky, Rebecca A ^a   Whittemore, Alice S ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Case control study; Conditional model; Odds ratio; Quadratic exponential model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039015442     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986065     Document Type: Article

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