Quantification of bias in direct effects estimates due to different types of measurement error in the mediator

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 551-560

  Le Cessie, Saskia ^a   Debeij, Jan ^a   Rosendaal, Frits R ^a   Cannegieter, Suzanne C ^a   Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INTERNAL BIAS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SMOKING; THROMBOPHILIA; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84862122133     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318254f5de     Document Type: Article

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