Estimation of the population attributable fraction for mortality in a cohort study using a piecewise constant hazards model

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 837-847

  Laaksonen, Maarit A ^a   Knekt, Paul ^a   Härkänen, Tommi ^a   Virtala, Esa ^a   Oja, Hannu ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; Cohort studies; Mortality; Proportional hazards models; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77950440010     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp457     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Levin ML. The occurrence of lung cancer in man. Acta Unio Int Contra Cancrum. 1953;9(3):531-541
2. Benichou J. A review of adjusted estimators of attributable risk. Stat Methods Med Res. 2001;10(3):195-216 (Pubitemid 32586161)
3. Bruzzi P, Green SB, Byar DP, et al. Estimating the population attributable risk for multiple risk factors using case-control data. Am J Epidemiol. 1985;122(5):904-914 (Pubitemid 16207356)
4. Chen YQ, Hu C, Wang Y. Attributable risk function in the proportional hazards model for censored time-to-event. Bio-statistics. 2006;7(4):515-529
5. Spiegelman D, Hertzmark E, Wand HC. Point and interval estimates of partial population attributable risks in cohort studies: examples and software. Cancer Causes Control. 2007; 18(5):571-579
6. Cox DR. Regression models and life tables (with discussion). J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol. 1972;34(2):187-220
7. Burr D. On inconsistency of Breslow's estimator as an estimator of the hazard rate in the Cox model. Biometrics. 1994; 50(4):1142-1145
8. Samuelsen SO, Eide GE. Attributable fractions with survival data. Stat Med. 2008;27(9):1447-1467
9. Korn EL, Graubard BI, Midthune D. Time-to-event analysis of longitudinal follow-up of a survey: choice of the time-scale. Am J Epidemiol. 1997;145(1):72-80
10. Friedman M. Piecewise constant hazards models for survival data with covariates. Ann Stat. 1982;10(1):101-113
11. SAS Institute Inc. SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 9.1. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc; 2007
12. Aromaa A, Heliövaara M, Impivaara O, et al. Aims, methods and study population. Part 1. In: Aromaa A, Heliövaara M, Impivaara O, et al, eds. The Execution of the Mini-Finland Health Survey [in Finnish with English summary]. Helsinki, Finland: Social Insurance Institution; 1989
13. Efron B. Bootstrap methods: another look at the jackknife. Ann Stat. 1979;7(1):1-26
14. Laird N, Olivier D. Covariance analysis of censored survival data using log-linear analysis techniques. J Am Stat Assoc. 1981;76(374):231-240
15. Greenland S, Drescher K. Maximum likelihood estimation of the attributable fraction from logistic models. Biometrics. 1993;49(3):865-872
16. Eide GE, Gefeller O. Sequential and average attributable fractions as aids in the selection of preventive strategies. J Clin Epidemiol. 1995;48(5):645-665
17. Rabe C, Lehnert-Batar A, Gefeller O. Generalized approaches to partitioning the attributable risk of interacting risk factors can remedy existing pitfalls. J Clin Epidemiol. 2007;60(5): 461-468
18. Bickel PJ, Doksum KA. Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc; 2001:132,434