A common misuse of stepwise regression in studies of ratio of metastatic lymph nodes for gastric cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1805-1806

  Wang, Xi ^a   Wan, Fei ^b   Wang, Jie Jun ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43449090364     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-9908-z     Document Type: Letter

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