Managing and analysing data from a large-scale study on Framingham Offspring relating brain structure to cognitive function

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 351-367

  Massaro, Joseph M ^a,b   D'Agostino Sr , Ralph B ^b   Sullivan, Lisa M ^a,b   Beiser, Alexa ^a   DeCarli, Charles ^c   Au, Rhoda ^d   Elias, Merrill F ^b   Wolf, Philip A ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RECALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347724045     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1743     Document Type: Article

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