Variable Effectiveness: Assessing Methods to Adjust for Covariates in Biomonitoring
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Variable Effectiveness: Assessing Methods to Adjust for Covariates in Biomonitoring
Human biomonitoring involves measuring chemical substances, or biomarkers, in people’s blood serum or urine to estimate their exposures. Investigators typically use statistical adjustments to account for variations in urine dilution or serum lipid levels, because failure to adjust for these factors could result in biased estimates and loss of statistical power. In this issue of EHP, researchers...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.124-a37