Apportioning causes, targeting populations and predicting risks: Population attributable fractions

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 933-935

  Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Hartge, Patricia ^a  

^a EPS 8038 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BODY BURDEN; CALCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; COUNSELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NOTE; POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

ASBESTOS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 0142027105     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025863607725     Document Type: Note

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