Dose-response analyses using restricted cubic spline functions in public health research

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1037-1057

  Desquilbet, Loic ^a   Mariotti, François ^b  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b CENTRE MAURICE HALBWACHS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FOLIC ACID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTRICTED CUBIC SPLINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950874403     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3841     Document Type: Article

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