A conditional approach for inference in multivariate age-period-cohort models

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 311-329

  Held, Leonhard ^a   Riebler, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

conditional likelihood; multinomial logistic regression; multivariate age period cohort model; overdispersion; relative risk

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDITIONAL APPROACH; GENDER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE AGE PERIOD COHORT MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; UNITED KINGDOM;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; WALES;

EID: 84863928206     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280210379761     Document Type: Article

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