On the nondifferential misclassification of a binary confounder

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-439

  Ogburn, Elizabeth L ^a   VanderWeele, Tyler J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINARY CONFOUNDER; COVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 82055193052     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31824d1f63     Document Type: Article

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