The (mis)estimation of neighborhood effects: Causal inference for a practicable social epidemiology

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1929-1952

  Oakes, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment mechanism; Cluster trial; Community trial; Counterfactual; HLM; Mixed model; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; METHODOLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETER; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 1542358740     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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