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Regression Methods for Epidemiologic Analysis

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Handbook of Epidemiology

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Basic tabular and graphical methods are an essential component of epidemiologic analysis and are often sufficient, especially when one need consider only a few variables at a time. They are, however, limited in the number of variables that they can examine simultaneously. Even sparse-strata methods (such as Mantel-Haenszel) require that some strata have two or more subjects; yet, as more and more variables or categories are added to a stratification, the number of subjects in each stratum may eventually drop to 0 or 1.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772, USA

    Sander Greenland

  2. Department of Statistics, UCLA College of Letters and Science, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772, USA

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Greenland, S. (2005). Regression Methods for Epidemiologic Analysis. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_17

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