Biased odds ratios from dichotomization of age

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3487-3497

  Chen, Henian ^a,b,c   Cohen, Patricia ^a,b,c   Chen, Sophie ^d  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Calgary Health Region ^*  (United States)

^d CALGARY HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Confounding; Cutpoint; Dichotomizing; Logistic regression; Odds ratio

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34547406307     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2737     Document Type: Article

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