Occupational exposures and lung cancer: Adjustment for unmeasured confounding by smoking

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-186

  Richardson, David B ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING;

EID: 77249086201     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181c6f7d9     Document Type: Article

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