The sign of the unmeasured confounding bias under various standard populations

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 670-676

  Chiba, Yasutaka ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Observational studies; Potential outcomes

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL INFERENCES; CONFOUNDER; MONOTONICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POTENTIAL OUTCOMES; STANDARD POPULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 70350714044     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200800195     Document Type: Article

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