Is probabilistic bias analysis approximately bayesian?

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 151-158

  MacLehose, Richard F ^a   Gustafson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC BIAS ANALYSIS METHOD; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 83655183643     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31823b539c     Document Type: Article

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