Weighing the Causal Pies in Case-Control Studies

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 568-573

  Liao, Shu Fen ^a   Lee, Wen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSAL MODELING; CAUSAL PIE WEIGHT; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77953560683     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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