The mediation proportion [1]

Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 710-

  Kaufman, Jay S ^a   MacLehose, Richard F ^a   Kaufman, Sol ^b   Greenland, Sander ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; AGE; ALGORITHM; DENMARK; HUMAN; NOTE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALPHA INTERFERON;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; DENMARK; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24144456461     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000171282.54664.71     Document Type: Letter

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