Mismeasurement and the resonance of strong confounders: Uncorrelated errors

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1069-1078

  Marshall, James R ^a   Hastrup, Janice L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

confounding factors epidemiology; epidemiologic methods; measurement error; misclassification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0029892247     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008671     Document Type: Article

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