Estimation of attributable number of deaths and standard errors from simple and complex sampled cohorts

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2639-2649

  Graubard, Barry I ^a   Flegal, Katherine M ^b   Williamson, David F ^c   Gail, Mitchell H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Influence function; Population attributable risk; Survey sampling; Taylor deviate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOM SAMPLE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE;

COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249710678     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2734     Document Type: Article

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