Choice of statistical method influences apparent association between structure and function in glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4189-4196

  Marín Franch, Iván ^a,b   Malik, Rizwan ^c   Crabb, David P ^b   Swanson, William H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Loess; Ordinary least squares regression; Segmented regression; Structure function relationships

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELD;

LOESS; ORDINARY LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION; SEGMENTED REGRESSION; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS;

GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84879260737     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10377     Document Type: Article

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