The use of biomarkers to assess exposure and investigate biomedical questions is common in epidemiology. The usefulness of biomarker research, however, is contingent upon the ability to achieve a complete understanding of the role they play within a population. In estimating distributional parameters for a particular biomarker, such as oxidative stress or antioxidant markers, scientists face two main challenges: overcoming the cost of performing a large number of assays and dealing with data subject to a limit of detection. While approaches have been suggested to deal with each of these issues individually, pooling is a strategy that can address both problems. © 2009 Humana Press.
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Rosenthal, L., & Schisterman, E. (2008). Pooling data when analyzing biomarkers subject to a limit of detection. Methods in Molecular Biology, 477, 421–426. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-517-0_31
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