A practical approach to estimating the true effect of exposure despite imprecise exposure classification.

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Published in Am J Ind Med on January 01, 1991

Authors

J J Weinkam1, W L Rosenbaum, T D Sterling

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Applied Sciences, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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