Invited commentary: Positivity in practice

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 674-677

  Westreich, Daniel ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Causality; Confounding factors (epidemiology); Epidemiologic methods; Exchangeability; Identifiability; Multilevel analysis; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; NOTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 77949377342     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp436     Document Type: Note

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