There goes the neighborhood effect: Bias owing to nondifferential measurement error in the construction of neighborhood contextual measures

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 528-535

  Mooney, Stephen J ^a   Richards, Catherine A ^a   Rundle, Andrew G ^a  

^a Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; HUMAN; INCOME; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEIGHBORHOOD; OBESITY; POPULATION SIZE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY MASS INDEX; CENSUSES; HUMANS; INCOME; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84902244561     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000113     Document Type: Article

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