On modelling metabolism-based biomarkers of exposure: A comparative analysis of nonlinear models with few repeated measurements

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1901-1919

  Johnson, Brent A ^a   Rappaport, Stephen M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogensis; Environmental epidemiology; Multiplicative lognormal; Semiparametric inference; Transform both sides

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 34047213792     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2845     Document Type: Article

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