Evaluation of removable statistical interaction for binary traits

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1164-1190

  Satagopan, Jaya M ^a   Elston, Robert C ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Curvature; Independence; Interaction effect; Link function; Main effect; Residuals; Score statistic; Transformation; Tukey's test; Unbalanced data

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ACCURACY; ACETYLATION; ADVANCED CANCER; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEA;

ADENOMA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROMATASE; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BIOSTATISTICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TEA; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874977488     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5628     Document Type: Article

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