Shedding light on the etiology of sports injuries: A look behind the scenes of time-to-event analyses

Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 300-311

  Nielsen, Rasmus Østergaard ^a   Malisoux, Laurent ^b   Møller, Merete ^a   Theisen, Daniel ^b   Parner, Erik Thorlund ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Injury prevention; Methodology; Statistics; Time varying variables

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; EXERCISE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; HUMANS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84963743364     PISSN: 01906011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2016.6510     Document Type: Review

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