Toward a Clearer Portrayal of Confounding Bias in Instrumental Variable Applications

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 498-504

  Jackson, John W ^a,b   Swanson, Sonja A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; GEOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942743642     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000287     Document Type: Article

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