Generalized Cornfield conditions for the risk difference

Biometrika

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 971-977

  Ding, Peng ^a   Vanderweele, Tyler J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Confounding; Observational study; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955090485     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asu030     Document Type: Article

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