Using tensor product splines in modeling exposure-time-response relationships: Application to the Colorado Plateau Uranium Miners cohort

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 5484-5496

  Berhane, Kiros ^a   Hauptmann, Michael ^b   Langholz, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Latency; Nested case control; Occupational exposure; Relative risk

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLORADO; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

EID: 59449092064     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3354     Document Type: Article

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