A unified model for covariate measurement error adjustment in an occupational health study while accounting for non-detectable exposures

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 259-271

  Wannemuehler, Kathleen A ^a,b   Lyles, Robert H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Detection limit; Log normal distribution; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844266887     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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