Impact of measurement error in radon exposure on the estimated excess relative risk of lung cancer death in a simulated study based on the French Uranium Miners' Cohort

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-163

  Allodji, Rodrigue S ^a   Leuraud, Klervi ^a   Thiébaut, Anne C M ^b,c,d   Henry, Stéphane ^e   Laurier, Dominique ^a   Bénichou, Jacques ^b,f,g  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d University Versailles Saint Quentin UVSQ   (France)

^e AREVA NP   (France)

^f ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Excess relative risk model; Lung cancer; Measurement error; Poisson regression analysis; Radon; Uranium Miners

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; BERKSON; DECAY PRODUCTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; LUNG CANCER; NEGATIVE BIAS; POISSON REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RADON EXPOSURE; SIMULATION STUDIES; TIME-PERIODS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MINERS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RADON;

RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; URANIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863778525     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0403-3     Document Type: Article

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