Criteria for confounders in epidemiological studies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-15

  Geng, Zhi ^a   Guo, Jianhua ^a   Fung, Wing Kam ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Causal effect; Comparability; Confounding; Counterfactual model; Epidemiological methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036003378     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00321     Document Type: Article

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