Commentary: Advancing neighbourhood-effects research - Selection, inferential support, and structural confounding

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 643-647

  Oakes, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33745588272     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl054     Document Type: Note

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