Clinical research of kidney diseases III: Principles of regression and modelling

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3422-3430

  Ravani, Pietro ^a,b,c   Parfrey, Patrick ^b   Gadag, Veeresh ^b   Malberti, Fabio ^a   Barrett, Brendan ^b  

^a CREMONA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Divisione di Nefrologia e Dialisi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confounding; Interaction; Interval estimate; Point estimate; Regression models

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 36749087090     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm777     Document Type: Review

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