Finding factors influencing risk: Comparing bayesian stochastic search and standard variable selection methods applied to logistic regression models of cases and controls

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 6158-6174

  Swartz, Michael D ^a   Yu, Robert K ^a   Shete, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian logistic regression; Case control analyses; Logistic regression; Prior calibration; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 67650375887     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3434     Document Type: Article

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