Maximum-likelihood and closed-form estimators of epidemiologic measures under misclassification

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 528-538

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Epidemiologic methods; Measurement error; Misclassification; Odds ratio; Relative risk; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348915983     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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