The Relation of Collapsibility and Confounding to Faithfulness and Stability

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 466-472

  Mansournia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Greenland, Sander ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; COLLAPSIBILITY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAITHFULNESS (STATISTICS); INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STABILITY (STATISTICS); STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICS;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942753795     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000291     Document Type: Article

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