The performance of random coefficient regression in accounting for residual confounding

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 760-768

  Gustafson, Paul ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Bias; Confounding; Epidemiology; Hierarchical models; Identifiability; Mixed models; Observational studies; Random coefficient regression

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIAS; CONFOUNDING; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; IDENTIFIABILITY; MIXED MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM COEFFICIENT REGRESSION; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS;

BIOMETRICS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM COEFFICIENT REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 33745624487     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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