A maximum likelihood method for studying gene-environment interactions under conditional independence of genotype and exposure

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 3093-3109

  Cheng, K F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Case only study; Interaction; Logistic regression; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SMOKING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748609418     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2506     Document Type: Article

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