Matched designs and causal diagrams

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 860-869

  Mansournia, Mohammad A ^a   Hernán, Miguel A ^b,c   Greenland, Sander ^d,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Causal diagram; Matching; Unfaithfulness

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGRAM; SAMPLING BIAS; VISUALIZATION;

ADJUSTMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSAL MODELING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; MATERIALS HANDLING; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIAS; CAUSAL DIAGRAM; MATCHING; UNFAITHFULNESS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84881577609     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt083     Document Type: Article

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