Effects of data limitations when modeling fatal occupational injury rates

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-283

  Bena, James F ^a,d,e   Bailer, A John ^a,b   Loomis, Dana ^c   Richardson, David ^c   Marshall, Steve ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Dept of Biostatist/Epidemiol/Wb4 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Fatality undercount; Poisson regression; Uncertainty; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FATALITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RATING SCALE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 4444350578     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20070     Document Type: Article

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