Addressing the identification problem in age-period-cohort analysis: A tutorial on the use of partial least squares and principal components analysis

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 583-593

  Tu, Yu Kang ^a   Krämer, Nicole ^b   Lee, Wen Chung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY HEIGHT; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84862800328     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31824d57a9     Document Type: Review

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