Bias attenuation results for nondifferentially mismeasured ordinal and coarsened confounders

Biometrika

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 241-248

  Ogburn, Elizabeth L ^a   Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Confounder; Measurement error; Misclassification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874772545     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ass054     Document Type: Article

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