Sibling comparison designs: Bias from non-shared confounders and measurement error

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 713-720

  Frisell, Thomas ^a   Ã Berg, Sara ^b   Kuja Halkola, Ralf ^a   Sjölander, Arvid ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXTERNAL BIAS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING ERROR; SIBLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; SIBLINGS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864875979     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31825fa230     Document Type: Article

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