Biostatistics and epidemiology: measuring the risk attributable to an environmental or genetic factor

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 330, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 281-298

  Benichou, Jacques ^a  

^a INSERM U657   (France)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Causality; Hazard; Incidence; Measure of association; Measure of impact; Regression; Risk; Sequential attributable risk; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BIOSTATISTICS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34248233575     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.02.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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