Causality and confounding in epidemiology;Kausalitt und Confounding in der Epidemiologie

Gesundheitswesen

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 884-887

  Stang, A ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bias; causal diagrams; causality; confounding factors; DAG; epistemology

Indexed keywords

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

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS;

EID: 84555216351     PISSN: 09413790     EISSN: 14394421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1287843     Document Type: Article

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