A graphical method for assessing risk factor threshold values using the generalized additive model: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-79

  Setodji, Claude Messan ^a   Scheuner, Maren ^a   Pankow, James S ^b   Blumenthal, Roger S ^c   Chen, Haiying ^d   Keeler, Emmett ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized additive model; Recycled prediction; Smearing estimates; Threshold detection

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTINUOUS VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EFFECT SIZE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84862791726     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: 15729400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-012-0082-1     Document Type: Article

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