An introduction to instrumental variables for epidemiologists

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 722-729

  Greenland, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometry; Causal models; Compliance; Confounding; Econometrics; Epidemiological methods; Instrumental variables; Measurement error; Misclassification; Regression calibration; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033853460     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/29.4.722     Document Type: Article

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