Epidemiology

The Role of Evidence in Risk Characterization: Making Sense of Conflicting Data

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 67-80

  Schüz, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conflicting results; Consistency; Epidemiology; Risk estimation; Specificity; Study types

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857799486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527622351.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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