The role of causal reasoning in understanding Simpson's paradox, Lord's paradox, and the suppression effect: Covariate selection in the analysis of observational studies

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arah, Onyebuchi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; LORD PARADOX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SIMPSON PARADOX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SUPPRESSION PHENOMENA;

EID: 40749160098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-5-5     Document Type: Note

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