A toolkit for measurement error correction, with a focus on nutritional epidemiology

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2137-2155

  Keogh, RuthH ^a   White, IanR ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet diary; Food frequency questionnaire; Measurement error; Moment reconstruction; Multiple imputation; Nutritional epidemiology; Regression calibration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR CORRECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899921851     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6095     Document Type: Article

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