How a Court Accepted a Possible Explanation: A Comment on Gastwirth, Krieger, and Rosenbaum

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 112-114

  Poole, Charles ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Confounding; Contingency table; Law and statistics; Sensitivity; Unobserved variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031475760     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473940     Document Type: Article

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