Chronic disease prevention research methods and their reliability, with illustrations from the Women's Health Initiative

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 492, 2010, Pages 1431-1443

  Prentice, Ross L ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Chronic disease prevention; Clinical trial; Cohort study; Confounding; Measurement error

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651324044     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.tm10570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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