Quantifying epidemiologic risk factors using non-parametric regression: Model selection remains the greatest challenge

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3369-3381

  Rosenberg, Philip S ^a   Katki, Hormuzd ^a   Swanson, Christine A ^a   Brown, Linda M ^a   Wacholder, Sholom ^a   Hoover, Robert N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Epidemiologic methods; Logistic models; Oral cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STATISTICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NEGRO; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242300771     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1638     Document Type: Article

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