Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 53, Issue 8 , Pages 809-816 , August 2000

Iron stores and coronary artery disease: A clinical application of a method to incorporate measurement error of the exposure in a logistic regression model

  • Louise Pilote

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, L-10 416, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, 1650 Cedar Ave. Montreal, (QC), H3G 1A4, Canada. Tel: 514–937-6011, ext. 4722; Fax: 514–934-8293
    • ,
  • Lawrence Joseph

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • ,
  • Patrick Bélisle

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • ,
  • Killian Robinson

      Affiliations

    • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Frederic Van Lente

      Affiliations

    • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Ira B Tager

      Affiliations

    • Division of Public Health Biology & Epidemiology, School of Public Health University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Received 3 November 1999 ,Accepted 22 December 1999.

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
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