Estimating population distributions when some data are below a limit of detection by using a reverse kaplan-meier estimator

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2010, Pages

  Gillespie, Brenda W ^a   Chen, Qixuan ^a,b   Reichert, Heidi ^a   Franzblau, Alfred ^a   Hedgeman, Elizabeth ^a   Lepkowski, James ^a   Adriaens, Peter ^c   Demond, Avery ^c   Luksemburg, William ^d   Garabrant, David H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

^d Vista Analytical Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICHIGAN; NUTRITION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICHIGAN; NUTRITION SURVEYS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE;

EID: 77953917249     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181ce9f08     Document Type: Article

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