Sample size implications when biases are modelled rather than ignored

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-881

  Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Bias; Epidemiology; Measurement error; Misclassification; Non identified model; Observational studies; Residual confounding; Sample size; Study design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748802753     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00436.x     Document Type: Review

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