Heterogeneity Bias: The Difference between Adjusted and Unadjusted Effects

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-104

  Steyerberg, Ewout W ^a   Eijkemans, Marinus J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; DECISION MAKING; HETEROGENEITY BIAS; LETTER; MARKOV MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1642443485     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X03262285     Document Type: Letter

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