The use of time-to-event methods in dental research: A comparison based on five dental journals over a 11-year period

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 36-42

  Vähänikkilä, Hannu ^a   Miettunen, Jouko ^a   Tjäderhane, Leo ^a   Larmas, Markku ^a   Nieminen, Pentti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

articles; bibliometrics; statistics; time to event methods

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLICATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857772525     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2011.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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