Structural equation models for meta-analysis in environmental risk assessment

Environmetrics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 510-527

  Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^a   Debes, Frodi ^b   Weihe, Pal ^b,c   Grandjean, Philippe ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Environmental epidemiology; Latent variables; Measurement error; Missing data; Multiple endpoints

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; META-ANALYSIS; METHYLMERCURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PCB; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77954831701     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1000     Document Type: Article

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