Causal directed acyclic graphs and the direction of unmeasured confounding bias

Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 720-728

  VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a   Hernán, Miguel A ^b   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; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 50549100686     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181810e29     Document Type: Article

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