Longitudinal studies and determination of risk

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 473, Issue , 2009, Pages 19-37

  Murphy, Sean W ^a  

^a Health Sciences Centre St John's   (Canada)

Author keywords

bias; case control study; cohort study; Longitudinal studies; risk factors; sample size estimate

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 59649130335     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-385-1_2     Document Type: Article

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