Geographic variations in risk: adjusting for unmeasured confounders through joint modeling of multiple diseases.

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Published in Epidemiology on May 01, 2009

Authors

Nicky Best1, Anna Louise Hansell

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK.

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