Visualising exposure-disease association: The lorenz curve and the Gini index

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Llorca, Javier ^a   Delgado Rodríguez, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Epidemiological methods; Gini index; Lorenz curve; Relative risk

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METABOLISM; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RISK; STATISTICS;

EID: 1842834293     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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