Understanding the limits of large datasets

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 664-669

  Sanders, Catherine M ^a,b,d   Saltzstein, Sidney L ^a,c   Schultzel, Matthew M ^a,b,f   Nguyen, Duy H ^a,e   Stafford, Helen Shi ^a,b,e   Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical variables; Data limitations; Disease registries; Missing data; Reporting; Tumor variables

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84876289423     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-012-0383-7     Document Type: Article

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