Is a cutoff of 10% appropriate for the change-in-estimate criterion of confounder identification?

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 161-167

  Lee, Paul H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Causality; Confounding factors; Regression; Simulation; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84897666350     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20130062     Document Type: Article

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