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Examining the Joint Effect of Multiple Risk Factors Using Exposure Risk Profiles: Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers
Author(s) -
Michail Papathomas,
John Molitor,
Sylvia Richardson,
Elio Ríboli,
Paolo Vineis
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1002118
Subject(s) - multinomial logistic regression , covariate , statistics , regression analysis , logistic regression , lung cancer , mendelian randomization , odds ratio , regression , medicine , mathematics , oncology , biology , biochemistry , genetic variants , genotype , gene
Profile regression is a Bayesian statistical approach designed for investigating the joint effect of multiple risk factors. It reduces dimensionality by using as its main unit of inference the exposure profiles of the subjects that is, the sequence of covariate values that correspond to each subject.

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