What is a confounding variables?

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 377-385

  De Irala, Jokin ^a   Martinez González, Miguel Éngel ^a   Guillén Grima, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bias; Confounding; Epidemiology; Methods; Statistical adjustment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; REVIEW;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0035818379     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(01)72121-5     Document Type: Article

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