Statistical analysis of donation-transfusion data with complex correlation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 5572-5585

  Reilly, Marie ^a   Szulkin, Robert ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Center for Family and Community Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood borne transmission; Bootstrap; Cox model; Donor recipient data; Haemovigilance; Nested case control study

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 38849091306     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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