The control of confounding by intermediate variables

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 679-701

  Robins, James ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Counterfactual causality; Longitudinal studies; Observational studies; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; STANDARDIZATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024382696     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780080608     Document Type: Article

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