Sensitivity analysis for trend tests: Application to the risk of radiation exposure

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-209

  Yu, Binbing ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Omitted variable; Sensitivity analysis; Trend test

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MUTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BYELARUS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22144436320     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi003     Document Type: Article

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