A Simple Approach for Fitting Linear Relative Rate Models in SAS

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• Personal Author:
  Richardson DB
• Description:
  The linear relative rate model has been employed in epidemiologic analyses of a variety of environmental and occupational exposures. In contrast to an exponential rate model, the linear relative rate model implies that the excess relative rate of disease changes in an additive fashion with exposure. The linear relative rate model may be fitted using EPICURE (HiroSoft International Corporation, Seattle, Washington), a specialized statistical software package widely used for such analyses. In this paper, the author presents a simple approach to fitting the linear relative rate model to epidemiologic data using PROC NLMIXED in the SAS statistical software package (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina). This approach is illustrated via analyses of data from a study of mortality in a cohort of South Carolina asbestos textile workers (1940-2001). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Cohort Analysis Dose-response Function Epidemiologic Methods Linear Trend Mathematical-models Models Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Poisson Regression Risk-analysis Risk-factors Software Statistical Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0002-9262
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  168
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034830
• Citation:
  Am J Epidemiol 2008 Dec; 168(11):1333-1338
• Contact Point Address:
  David B. Richardson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, CB 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
• Email:
  david.richardson@unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Epidemiology
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b23327a9f9c5068a4caf899b1a8db43fef46ff860e10d18977a38c49447079d5c063dd4d6ff6f58ac92150d1fc7012ed1fff8685f54f46ec7f810560bc5637dc
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186892/cdc_186892_DS1.pdf
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