Weighing gains and losses in criterion validity studies with test-based enrollment

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 983-988

  Reichenheim, Michael E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Questionnaires; Sensitivity; Specificity; Test based sampling; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0142106329     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00162-8     Document Type: Article

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