Confidence intervals for the interaction contrast ratio

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-274

  Kuss, Oliver ^a   Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Stang, Andreas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EYE COLOR; INTERACTION CONTRAST RATIO; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UVEA MELANOMA;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; RISK;

EID: 77249111298     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181cc9bfc     Document Type: Letter

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