Confidence Intervals of the Attributable Risk under Cross-Sectional Sampling with Confounders

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 767-779

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Confounder; Cross sectional sampling; Interval estimation; Rate ratio

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ASYMPTOTICS; ATTRIBUTABLE RISKS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDER; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL SAMPLING; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; INTERVAL ESTIMATORS; RATE RATIOS; RISK FACTORS;

SAMPLING;

EID: 0345857769     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4036(200110)43:6<767::AID-BIMJ767>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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