Accounting for bias due to selective attrition: The example of smoking and cognitive decline

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-128

  Weuve, Jennifer ^a   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^b   Glymour, M Maria ^b   Beck, Todd L ^a   Aggarwal, Neelum T ^c,d   Wilson, Robert S ^c,d   Evans, Denis A ^a   Mendes De Leon, Carlos F ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 83655191944     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318230e861     Document Type: Article

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