Orthogonal predictions: Follow-up questions for suggestive data

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 529-532

  Walker, Alexander M ^a,b  

^a World Health Information Science Consultants LLC   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Hypothesis testing; Induction; Inference

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; CAUSALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUSSUSCEPTION; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES;

EID: 77952766373     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1929     Document Type: Short Survey

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