Original reportA nested approach to evaluating dose-response and trend☆
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An initial version of this paper was presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Snowbird, Utah, 1995.
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John S. Witte was supported by FIRST Award CA-73270, as well as by grant CA-51923 from the National Cancer Institute.