Selecting on treatment: A pervasive form of bias in instrumental variable analyses

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 191-197

  Swanson, Sonja A ^a   Robins, James M ^a   Miller, Matthew ^a,c   Hernán, Miguel A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collider stratification bias; Epidemiologic methods; Instrumental variable; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

DIAGRAM; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SELECTION BIAS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; AGED; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84922370453     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu284     Document Type: Article

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