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. 2010 Aug 18;172(7):819–827. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwq216

Table 4.

Additive (αk) and Scaling (βk) Bias for Each Self-Report Instrument for Total Carotenoid Intake in a WHEL Sample of 3,088 Breast Cancer Survivors Recruited Between 1995 and 2000 and Followed Through 2006

Assessment Methoda Error Correlation in Repeated Plasma Measures (r)
r = 0
r = 0.3b
Comparison (n = 1,551)
Intervention (n = 1,537)
Comparison (n = 1,551)
Intervention (n = 1,537)
Bias Estimate 95% Credible Interval Bias Estimate 95% Credible Interval Bias Estimate 95% Credible Interval Bias Estimate 95% Credible Interval
24-Hour recalls
    α1 −0.24 −0.27, −0.22 0.06 0.02, 0.10 −0.25 −0.27, −0.22 0.07 0.03, 0.11
    β1 0.77 0.70, 0.84 1.10 1.01, 1.19 0.74 0.67, 0.81 1.04 0.96, 1.13
Arizona food frequency questionnaire
    α2 −0.11 −0.13, −0.09 0.02 −0.01, 0.05 −0.11 −0.13, −0.09 0.03 −0.01, 0.06
    β2 0.55 0.49, 0.61 0.70 0.64, 0.76 0.53 0.47, 0.58 0.66 0.61, 0.72

Abbreviation: WHEL, Women's Healthy Eating and Living.

a

Self-reported dietary intakes adjusted for body mass index and total caloric intake; plasma markers adjusted for plasma cholesterol and body mass index.

b

Assumed first-order autoregressive correlation structure for plasma error matrix.