Sensitivity Plots for Confounder Bias in the Single Mediator Model

Evaluation Review

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 405-431

  Cox, Matthew G ^a   Kisbu Sakarya, Yasemin ^b   Miočević, Milica ^c   MacKinnon, David P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; confounder bias; indirect effects; mediation; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84900296079     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X14524576     Document Type: Article

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