A method to detect residual confounding in spatial and other observational studies

Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 823-826

  Flanders, W Dana ^a,b   Klein, Mitchel ^a   Darrow, Lyndsey A ^a   Strickland, Matthew J ^a   Sarnat, Stefanie E ^a   Sarnat, Jeremy A ^a   Waller, Lance A ^b   Winquist, Andrea ^a   Tolbert, Paige E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL CONFOUNDING; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSALITY; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 80053599057     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182305dac     Document Type: Article

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