Adjusted significance cutoffs for hypothesis tests applied with generalized additive models with bivariate smoothers

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 291-300

  Bliss, Robin L ^a,b   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Vieira, Verónica M ^a   Webster, Thomas F ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate chi square test; Conditional permutation test; LOESS smooth; Permutation test; Type i error rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BIVARIATE LOCALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION SMOOTHING TERM; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONDITIONAL PERMUTATION TEST; DATA SYNTHESIS; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 82455167925     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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