Open AccessThe utility of web mining for epidemiological research: studying the association between parity and cancer risk
Author(s) -
Georgia D. Tourassi,
HongJun Yoon,
Songhua Xu,
Xuesong Han
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocv141
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , odds ratio , breast cancer , ovarian cancer , colorectal cancer , cancer , confidence interval , parity (physics) , pancreatic cancer , oncology , gynecology , physics , particle physics
The World Wide Web has emerged as a powerful data source for epidemiological studies related to infectious disease surveillance. However, its potential for cancer-related epidemiological discoveries is largely unexplored.
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