Characterization of Weighted Quantile Sum Regression for Highly Correlated Data in a Risk Analysis Setting

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 100-120

  Carrico, Caroline ^a   Gennings, Chris ^a   Wheeler, David C ^a   Factor Litvak, Pam ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Nonlinear model; Subset selection; Variable selection; WQS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939952775     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-014-0180-3     Document Type: Article

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