Accommodating Measurements Below a Limit of Detection: A Novel Application of Cox Regression - Dinse, Gregg E.; Jusko, Todd A.; Ho, Lindsey A.; Annam, Kaushik; Graubard, Barry I.; Hertz-Picciotto, Irva; Miller, Frederick W.; Gillespie, Brenda W.; Weinberg, Clarice R. (American journal of epidemiology, 2014)
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