Stratification for confounding-part 1: The mantel-haenszel formula

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Tripepi, Giovanni ^a   Jager, Kitty J ^b   Dekker, Friedo W ^b,c   Zoccali, Carmine ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confounding; Mantel Haenszel formula; Odds ratio; Relative risk; Stratification

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL ABUSE; BIRTH ORDER; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DOWN SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG CANCER; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MATERNAL AGE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; SURVIVOR;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BIRTH ORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 77954872774     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319590     Document Type: Short Survey

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