Graphical presentation of confounding in directed acyclic graphs

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1418-1423

  Suttorp, Marit M ^a   Siegerink, Bob ^a   Jager, Kitty J ^b   Zoccali, Carmine ^c   Dekker, Friedo W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

causal; Confounding; DAGs; directed acyclic graph; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LEAD POISONING; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS;

EID: 84940652295     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu325     Document Type: Review

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