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  BiometricsVolume 57 Issue 1, Pages 182 - 188 Published Online: 24 May 2004 ©2009 International Biometric Society Journal of the International Biometric Society
Abstract | References | Full Text: PDF (Size: 741K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Estimation of Population Attributable Fractions from Fitted Incidence Ratios and Exposure Survey Data, with an Application to Electromagnetic Fields and Childhood Leukemia Copyright The International Biometric society, 2001 KEYWORDS Attributable fraction • Attributable risk • Bootstrap • Epidemiological methods • Population attributable risk • Probability of causation • Relative risk • Risk assessment • Risk regression Summary.
Summary. Standard presentations of epidemiological results focus on incidence-ratio estimates derived from regression models fit to specialized study data. These data are often highly nonrepresentative of populations for which public-health impacts must be evaluated. Basic methods are provided for interval estimation of attributable fractions from model-based incidence-ratio estimates combined with independent survey estimates of the exposure distribution in the target population of interest. These methods are illustrated in estimation of the potential impact of magnetic-field exposures on childhood leukemia in the United States, based on pooled data from 11 case-control studies and a U.S. sample survey of magnetic-field exposures. Received September 1999. Revised May 2000. Accepted June 2000. |  |
