Efforts to adjust for confounding by neighborhood using complex survey data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1890-1899

  Brumback, Babette A ^a   Dailey, Amy B ^a   He, Zhulin ^a   Brumback, Lyndia C ^b   Livingston, Melvin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Complex survey data; Conditional logistic regression; Confounding; Generalized linear mixed models; Misspecified mixing distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EDUCATION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 77955386961     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3946     Document Type: Article

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