Partial identification arising from nondifferential exposure misclassification: How informative are data on the unlikely, maybe, and likely exposed?

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Dongxu ^a   Shen, Tian ^b   Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QLT Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; case control analysis; exposure misclassification; partial identification.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; NONDIFFERENTIAL EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84907659652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1557-4679.1397     Document Type: Article

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