Accounting for independent nondifferential misclassification does not increase certainty that an observed association is in the correct direction

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-68

  Greenland, Sander ^a   Gustafson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Epidemiologic methods; Measurement error; Misclassification; Odds ratio; Relative risk; Validation

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; INDEPENDENT NON DIFFERENTIAL MISCLASSIFICATION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745404626     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj155     Document Type: Article

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