Illustrating bias due to conditioning on a collider

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 417-420

  Cole, Stephen R ^a   Platt, Robert W ^b   Schisterman, Enrique F ^c   Chu, Haitao ^a   Westreich, Daniel ^a   Richardson, David ^a   Poole, Charles ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SAMPLING BIAS;

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INFLUENZA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 77952717253     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp334     Document Type: Article

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