Uncertainty analysis: An example of its application to estimating a survey proportion

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 650-654

  Jurek, Anne M ^a   Maldonado, George ^b   Greenland, Sander ^c   Church, Timothy R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SURVEY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); MONTE CARLO METHOD; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347256127     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.053660     Document Type: Review

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