Visualizing interaction effects: A proposal for presentation and interpretation

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 855-862

  Lamina, Claudia ^a   Sturm, Gisela ^a   Kollerits, Barbara ^a   Kronenberg, Florian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cox models; Interaction; Linear models; Logistic models; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERACTION EFFECT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862897685     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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