Dependence of Confounding on the Target Population: A Modification of Causal Graphs to Account for Co-Action

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 698-705

  Flanders, W Dana ^a   Johnson, Candice Y ^a   Howards, Penelope P ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Co Action; Confounding; Directed Acyclic Graphs; Interaction

Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MATERNAL OBESITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENYLKETONURIA; POPULATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 79961026462     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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