Uncovering selection bias in case-control studies using Bayesian post-stratification

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2555-2570

  Geneletti, S ^a   Best, N ^b   Toledano, M B ^b   Elliott, P ^b   Richardson, S ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collider bias; Combining data; Conditional independence; Epidemiology; Marginal odds ratio; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN POST STRATIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAIR SPRAY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84879111698     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5722     Document Type: Article

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