Bias in odds ratios by logistic regression modelling and sample size

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nemes, Szilard ^a   Jonasson, Junmei Miao ^a   Genell, Anna ^a   Steineck, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 69049092794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-56     Document Type: Article

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