Overlap bias in the case-crossover design, with application to air pollution exposures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 285-300

  Janes, Holly ^a   Sheppard, Lianne ^a   Lumley, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Case crossover design; Estimating equations; Overlap bias

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; WEATHER;

EID: 12344311441     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1889     Document Type: Article

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