Confounding after Risk-Set Sampling in the Beryllium Study of Sanderson et al.

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 773-779

  Rothman, Kenneth J ^a   Mosquin, Paul L ^a  

^a RTI HEALTH SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium; Case Control Study; Confounding; Lagged Exposure; Risk Set Sampling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK; RISK SET SAMPLING; SAMPLING; SAMPLING ERROR; SIMULATION; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; BERYLLIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052259227     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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