The impact of exposure categorisation for grouped analyses of cohort data

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 930-935

  Richardson, D B ^a   Loomis, D ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 6344289183     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.014159     Document Type: Article

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