A Bayesian multilevel model for estimating the diet/disease relationship in a multicenter study with exposures measured with error: The EPIC study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 6037-6054

  Ferrari, Pietro ^a   Carroll, Raymond J ^b   Gustafson, Paul ^c   Riboli, Elio ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Measurement error; Multicenter study; Multilevel

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BREAST TUMOR; CALORIC INTAKE; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIET; DIETARY FATS; ENERGY INTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67349174851     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3444     Document Type: Article

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