A comparison of statistical methods for the study of etiologic heterogeneity

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 2017, Pages 4050-4060

  Zabor, Emily C ^a,b   Begg, Colin B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer epidemiology; disease subtypes; etiologic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EFFECT SIZE; ERROR; ETIOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIAS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85026413448     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.7405     Document Type: Article

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