Negative Controls: A tool for detecting confounding and bias in observational studies

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-388

  Lipsitch, Marc ^a,b,c   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric ^a,c   Cohen, Ted ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; INFLUENZA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROL GROUP; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TETANUS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; OBSERVATION;

EID: 77950933862     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181d61eeb     Document Type: Article

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