A comparison of approaches to control for confounding factors by regression models

Human Heredity

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 194-205

  Xing, Guan ^a   Lin, Chang Yun ^b   Xing, Chao ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Confounding factor; Linear regression

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN A;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; COVARIANCE; EFFECT SIZE; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXAS;

EID: 80855143822     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332743     Document Type: Article

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