Examining associations between occupation and health by using routinely collected data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 507-521

  Carpenter, Lucy M ^c   Maconochie, Noreen E S ^c   Roman, Eve ^a   Cox, David R ^b  

^a Leukaemia Res Fund Ctr Clin E   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Empirical bayes procedure; Normal probability plot; Occupation and cancer; Proportional registration ratio; Routinely collected data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039921947     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.1997.00077.x     Document Type: Article

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