Reducing overestimation in reported mobile phone use associated with epidemiological studies

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 559-563

  Tokola, Kari ^a   Kurttio, Päivi ^b   Salminen, Tiina ^a,b   Auvinen, Anssi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Exposure; Measurement error; Regression calibration; Validation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; LINEAR REGRESSION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; DATA VALIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE; MOBILE PHONE USE; NETWORK OPERATOR; REGRESSION CALIBRATION; STATISTIC MODELING; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 53049097232     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20424     Document Type: Article

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