Assessing interaction in case-control studies: Type I errors when using both additive and multiplicative scales

Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 422-427

  Starr, Jacqueline R ^a,b   McKnight, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADDITIVE RELATIVE RISK; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLICATIVE INTERACTION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4344710265     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000129508.82783.94     Document Type: Article

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