Bayesian modelling of lung cancer risk and bitumen fume exposure adjusted for unmeasured confounding by smoking.

OBJECTIVES: Residual confounding can be present in epidemiological studies because information on confounding factors was not collected. A Bayesian framework, which has the advantage over frequentist methods that the uncertainty in the association between the confounding factor and exposure and dise...

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Publicado en:Occupational & Environmental Medicine Vol. 66; no. 8; pp. 502 - 509
Autores principales: de Vocht F, Kromhout H, Ferro G, Boffetta P, Burstyn I
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Aug2009
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