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Ruofei Du1,2, Li Luo1,2, Laurie G Hudson3

  • 1Biostatistics Shared Resource, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

概括

这项研究引入了一种新的方法来分析环境暴露和健康结果,即使缺少数据. 该方法提高了确定环境因素与特定健康结果之间的关联的准确性.

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