Sample Size and Power Calculations for Additive Interactions

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 158-188

  Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

additive interaction; effect heterogeneity; power; relative excess risk due to interaction; sample size; synergism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892674127     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/2161-962X.1010     Document Type: Review

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