Assessing the sensitivity of regression results to unmeasured confounders in observational studies

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 948-963

  Lin, D Y ^a   Psaty, B M ^a   Kronmal, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Causal inference; Cohort studies; Covariate adjustment; Cox regression; Logistic regression; Model misspecification; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CAUSAL INFERENCES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDER; COVARIATE ADJUSTMENT; COVARIATES; COX REGRESSION; EXPOSURE EFFECTS; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0031661402     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533848     Document Type: Article

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