The effects of intentional weight loss as a latent variable problem

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 941-954

  Coffey, Christopher S ^a   Gadbury, Gary L ^b   Fontaine, Kevin R ^c   Wang, Chenxi ^a,f   Weindruch, Richard ^d,e   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Mortality; Obesity; Unobserved variables

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 15544382559     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1964     Document Type: Article

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