The use of the 'reverse cornfield inequality' to assess the sensitivity of a non-significant association to an omitted variable

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3383-3401

  Yu, Binbing ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b,c  

^a INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPERMICIDAL AGENT; TRANQUILIZER;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTH DEFECT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPERMATOCIDAL AGENTS; TRANQUILIZING AGENTS;

EID: 0242363791     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1639     Document Type: Article

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