Assessment of skewed exposure in case-control studies with pooling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2461-2472

  Whitcomb, Brian W ^a   Perkins, Neil J ^b   Zhang, Zhiwei ^b   Ye, Aijun ^b   Lyles, Robert H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Case control studies; Gamma distribution; Logistic regression; Pooling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHEMOKINE; EOTAXIN;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POOLING BASE STRATEGY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMOKINES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84866169500     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5351     Document Type: Article

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