A comparison of binary models dealing with an extraneous effect relating to the main risk factor, but not relating to the outcome variable

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1473-1486

  Fu, Chong Yau ^a   Yang, Ya Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binary model; Deviated value; Extraneous effect; Fractional polynomial; Group mean; Y X Z pattern

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BINARY MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RESPONSE VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 69949108834     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3558     Document Type: Article

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