The effects of joint misclassification of exposure and disease on the attributable risk

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1881-1896

  Vogel, C ^a   Brenner, H ^b   Pfahlberg, A ^a   Gefeller, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Bias; Epidemiologic methods; Misclassification; Relative risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOTYPY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GERMANY; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 21044455510     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2065     Document Type: Article

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