Commentary: Race: Ritual, regression, and reality

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 485-487

  Kaufman, Jay S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMEDICINE; BIOSTATISTICS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RITUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SOCIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CAUSALITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS;

EID: 84902200123     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000117     Document Type: Note

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