Bayesian methods for highly correlated exposure data

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-207

  MacLehose, Richard F ^a,b,d   Dunson, David B ^b   Herring, Amy H ^a,c   Hoppin, Jane A ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33847049045     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000256320.30737.c0     Document Type: Article

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