SAS macros for calculation of population attributable fraction in a cohort study design

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1-25

  Laaksonen, Maarit A ^a   Virtala, Esa ^a   Knekt, Paul ^a   Oja, Hannu ^b   Härkänen, Tommi ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cohort study; Disease incidence; Effect modification; Mortality; PAF; Piecewise constant hazards model; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051540977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v043.i07     Document Type: Article

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