Assignment of grouped exposure levels for trend estimation in a regression analysis of summarized data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 2605-2616

  Takahashi, Kunihiko ^a   Tango, Toshiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assigned dose; Interval data; Linear regression; Trend estimation; Weighted regression

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXPOSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TREND STUDY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958567892     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4000     Document Type: Article

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