Excess risk thresholds in ultrasound safety studies: Statistical methods for data on occurrence and size of lesions

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1289-1295

  Simpson, Douglas G ^a   Ho, Moon Ho ^b   Yang, Yan ^a   Zhou, Jianhui ^a   Zachary, James F ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Excess risk; Logistic regression; Lung hemorrhage; Statistical comparison; Thresholds; Tobit regression; Ultrasound risk

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE-DEPENDENT PERCENTILES; RISK EQUATION; RISK THRESHOLD; SIZE DISTRIBNUTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; ULTRASONICS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INJURY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES; MICE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 9644256060     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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