Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) the application of causal diagrams in epidemiology;Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) Die Anwendung kausaler Graphen in der Epidemiologie

Gesundheitswesen

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 888-892

  Schipf, S ^a   Knuppel S ^b   Hardt, J ^c,d   Stang, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Abteilung Epidemiologie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bias; causal diagram; causality; conditioning; confounding; DAG; minimally sufficient adjustment set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS;

EID: 84555208700     PISSN: 09413790     EISSN: 14394421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291192     Document Type: Article

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