Analyses of injury count data: Some do's and don'ts

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1307-1315

  Shrier, Ian ^a   Steele, Russell J ^a,b   Hanley, James ^b   Rich, Benjamin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Bootstrap confidence interval; Epidemiologic methods; Heterogeneity; Population characteristics; Statistics; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; INJURY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUNDING;

ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SPINE INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUEBEC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70350669505     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp265     Document Type: Article

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