Simplified Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis for Mismeasured and Unobserved Confounders

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1129-1137

  Gustafson, P ^a   McCandless, L C ^b   Levy, A R ^c   Richardson, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Faculty of Medicine and MRC Health Protection Agency   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Measurement error; Sensitivity analysis; Unobserved confounder

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDER; DATA IMPACT; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; SIMPLE++; UNOBSERVED CONFOUNDER;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650069254     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01377.x     Document Type: Article

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