Direct effects testing: A two-stage procedure to test for effect size and variable importance for correlated binary predictors and a binary response

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2544-2556

  Sperrin, M ^a   Jaki, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency table; Direct effect; High dimensional; Lasso; Noncentral hypergeometric distribution; Sparsity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIRECT EFFECT TESTING; EFFECT SIZE; HYPOTHESIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

AGE OF ONSET; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77958482571     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4014     Document Type: Article

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