Causal analysis of case-control data

Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Newman, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART INFARCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645577294     PISSN: 17425573     EISSN: 17425573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-5573-3-2     Document Type: Article

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