Reproducibility and Validity of Food-Frequency Questionnaires

Nutritional Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Willett, Walter ^a   Lenart, Elizabeth ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Data analysis; Food frequency questionnaire; Reproducibility; Validation studies; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940851383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195122978.003.06     Document Type: Chapter

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