Estimating average attributable fractions with confidence intervals for cohort and case–control studies

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1141-1152

  Ferguson, John ^a   Alvarez Iglesias, Alberto ^a   Newell, John ^a   Hinde, John ^a   O’Donnell, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

attributable fraction; Epidemiology; Monte Carlo confidence interval; permutations; weighted likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERAGE ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUGHING; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STUDY DESIGN; CHRONIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85042857821     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280216655374     Document Type: Article

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