The effect of censoring on cancer risk estimates based on the Canadian National Dose Registry of occupational radiation exposure

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 398-406

  Shin, Hwashin ^a   Ramsay, Timothy ^a,c   Krewski, Daniel ^a   Zielinski, Jan M ^b,c  

^a M Ctr for Pop Hlth Risk Assess   (Canada)

^b Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Censoring; Dosimeter; Excess relative risk; National Dose Registry; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 27744557073     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: 14765519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500416     Document Type: Article

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