Population attributable fraction

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 360, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Mansournia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ETIOLOGIC FRACTION; EXPOSURE; GENERALIZED IMPACT FRACTION; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOTE; POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTABLE FRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85042624864     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k757     Document Type: Note

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