Effects of Classical Exposure Measurement Error on the Shape of Exposure-Disease Associations

Epidemiologic Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-32

  Keogh, Ruth H ^a,b   Strawbridge, Alexander D ^a   White, Ian R ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

classical measurement error; dose response; fractional polynomials; grouped exposure analysis; P splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927717647     PISSN: 21949263     EISSN: 2161962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/2161-962X.1007     Document Type: Article

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