Mediation Analyses: Applications in Nutrition Research and Reading the Literature

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 753-762

  Lockwood, Chondra M ^a   DeFrancesco, Carol A ^a   Elliot, Diane L ^a   Beresford, Shirley A A ^a   Toobert, Deborah J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77951162858     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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