Reanalysis: Lessons great and small

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 368-370

  Kriebel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CANCER RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BERYLLIUM;

BERYLLIUM; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 44449105074     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.034884     Document Type: Editorial

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