Practice of epidemiology: Hierarchical latency models for dose-time-response associations

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 695-702

  Richardson, David B ^a   MacLehose, Richard F ^a   Langholz, Bryan ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Hierarchical model; Latency; Neoplasms; Regression

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; URANIUM; RADON;

CANCER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE TIME RESPONSE ASSOCIATION; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG CANCER; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PARAMETER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEXTILE WORKER; URANIUM MINE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ASBESTOS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 79954587711     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq387     Document Type: Article

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