Four types of effect modification: A classification based on directed acyclic graphs

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 561-568

  VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a   Robins, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

CAUSALITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 34547924073     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318127181b     Document Type: Article

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