Longitudinal studies of dementia are often undertaken to estimate the incidence of dementia and to identify incident cases for the study of risk factors measured on the entire cohort at baseline. The power of these analyses is determined primarily by the number of demented cases identiΓΏed. Increasin
Follow-up studies in a technological university
β Scribed by Alan Smithers
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
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