Introduction to the use of regression models in epidemiology

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 471, Issue , 2009, Pages 179-195

  Bender, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Linear regression; Logistic regression; Poisson regression; Regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 60349113481     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-416-2_9     Document Type: Article

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