Models for count data with an application to healthy days measures: Are you driving in screws with a hammer?

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Hong ^a   Siegel, Paul Z ^a   Barile, John ^b   Njai, Rashid S ^a   Thompson, William W ^a   Kent, Charlotte ^a   Liao, Youlian ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ODDS RATIO; OWNERSHIP; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898902894     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd11.130252     Document Type: Article

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