Consequences of exposure measurement error for confounder identification in environmental epidemiology

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3089-3100

  Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^a,b   Keiding, Niels ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^b,c   Weihe, Pal ^b,d   White, Roberta F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

Bias; Confounding; Factor analysis; Instrumental variables; Measurement error; Multiple regression

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAROE ISLANDS; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHALE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MERCURY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0141815715     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1541     Document Type: Article

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