Selection bias modeling using observed data augmented with imputed record-level probabilities

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 747-753

  Thompson, Caroline A ^a,b   Arah, Onyebuchi A ^b,c,d,e  

^a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Casual inference; Epidemiologic methods; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; EXTERNAL BIAS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL ADJUSTMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SELECTION BIAS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PROBABILITY; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84926316242     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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