Generalizability: The trees, the forest, and the low-hanging fruit

Neurology

Volumn 78, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 1886-1891

  Kukull, Walter A ^a   Ganguli, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLING; SAMPLING ERROR; SMOKING HABIT; STUDY DESIGN;

EID: 84863582792     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318258f812     Document Type: Review

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