Model averaging in the analysis of leukemia mortality among Japanese A-bomb survivors

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-95

  Richardson, David B ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Epidemiologic methods; Regression; Shrinkage; Validity; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

CONFOUNDING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; REGRESSION; VALIDITY; VARIABLE SELECTION;

DISEASES; SHRINKAGE;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE);

ATOMIC BOMB; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84857658400     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-011-0395-4     Document Type: Article

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