Bayesian Analysis of Silica Exposure and Lung Cancer Using Human and Animal Studies
- 1 March 2017
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Epidemiology
- Vol. 28 (2), 281-287
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000000602
Abstract
The animal prior had more impact for smaller human studies and for one-fold versus three- or 10-fold uncertainty. Adjustment for Berkson error using Bayesian methods had little effect on the exposure-response coefficient when exposure was log transformed or when the sample size was large. See video abstract at, http://links.lww.com/EDE/B160.Keywords
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