Inside the black box: Starting to uncover the underlying decision rules used in a one-by-one expert assessment of occupational exposure in case-control studies

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-210

  Wheeler, David C ^a,b   Burstyn, Igor ^c   Vermeulen, Roel ^d   Yu, Kai ^a   Shortreed, Susan M ^e   Pronk, Anjoeka ^f   Stewart, Patricia A ^g   Colt, Joanne S ^a   Baris, Dalsu ^a   Karagas, Margaret R ^h   Schwenn, Molly ⁱ   Johnson, Alison ^j   Silverman, Debra T ^a   Friesen, Melissa C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f TNO   (Netherlands)

^g Stewart Exposure Assessments LLC   (United States)

^h DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ Maine Cancer Registry   (United States)

^j Vermont Cancer Registry   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM FOREST; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84874664264     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100918     Document Type: Article

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