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A longitudinal study of risk factors for the occurrence, duration and severity of menstrual cramps in a cohort of college women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1996-11)
To describe how menstrual cramps vary from cycle to cycle within a woman over time. To examine the influence of weight and lifestyle factors on occurrence, duration, and severity of menstrual pain. Design A one-year ...
Discriminatory behavior in New York restaurants: 1950 and 1981
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1983-07)
Survey techniques are combined with behavioral observations in this attempt to replicate a 1950 baseline study in order to examine trends in racial discrimination. In the 1950 study, treatment of black and white couples ...
Statistical Analysis of Choice Experiments and Surveys
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Measures of households' past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions ...
Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-12)
This paper discusses problems that are common to both the epidemiologic risk-factor approach and the demographic variable-based approach to studying population health. We argue that there is a shared reluctance to move ...
Epidemiology of menstrual disorders in developing countries: a systematic review
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2004-01)
Gender and Aging in the Developing World: Where Are the Men?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-12)
Maintaining Response Rates In Longitudinal Studies
(Sage Publications, 1980)
A recognized problem in mounting longitudinal surveys concerns the costs and difficulties in maintaining response rates over time. This article details the techniques used to minimize response loss in a longitudinal study ...
Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)