Indirect adjustment for multiple missing variables applicable to environmental epidemiology

Environmental Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 482-487

  Shin, Hwashin H ^a,b   Cakmak, Sabit ^a   Brion, Orly ^a   Villeneuve, Paul ^a,c   Turner, Michelle C ^d   Goldberg, Mark S ^e   Jerrett, Michael ^f   Chen, Hong ^g   Crouse, Dan ^a   Peters, Paul ^h   Pope, C Arden ⁱ   Burnett, Richard T ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^h STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cohort study; Indirect adjustment; Simulation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; WEIBULL THEORY;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANADIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIRECT ADJUSTMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920567627     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.05.016     Document Type: Article

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