Modelling smoking history using a comprehensive smoking index: application to lung cancer.

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Published in Stat Med on December 30, 2006

Authors

Karen Leffondré1, Michal Abrahamowicz, Yongling Xiao, Jack Siemiatycki

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Que., Canada. karen.leffondre@umontreal.ca

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