Inflation of the type I error rate when a continuous confounding variable is categorized in logistics regression analyses

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1159-1178

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Brunner, Lawrence J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorical variables; Confounding; Epidemiologic methods; Logistic regression; Measurement error; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1842780228     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1687     Document Type: Article

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