Combining Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Tools to Enhance Variable Selection in HIV Cohort Analyses
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Combining Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Tools to Enhance Variable Selection in HIV Cohort Analyses
BACKGROUND Variable selection is an important step in building a multivariate regression model for which several methods and statistical packages are available. A comprehensive approach for variable selection in complex multivariate regression analyses within HIV cohorts is explored by utilizing both epidemiological and biostatistical procedures. METHODS Three different methods for variable s...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087352