Estimating the variance in before-after studies

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 257-263

  Ye, Zhirui ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Before after study; Bootstrap; Non parametric; Resampling; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

BEFORE-AFTER STUDY; BOOTSTRAP; NON-PARAMETRIC; RESAMPLING; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70349396877     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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