Commonalities in the classical, collapsibility and counterfactual concepts of confounding

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-329

  Newman, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collapsibility; Confounding; Counterfactual

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; RISK; STANDARDIZATION;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 2342448487     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.07.014     Document Type: Review

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