A novel approach to quantify random error explicitly in epidemiological studies

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 899-902

  Janszky, Imre ^a,b   Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon ^a   Romundstad, Pål ^a   Vatten, Lars ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Random error; Random error units; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HAZARD RATIO; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOM ERROR; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; METRIC SYSTEM; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84857055213     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-011-9605-2     Document Type: Article

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