Assessment of participation bias in cohort studies: Systematic review and metaregression analysis;Avaliação do viés de participação em estudos de coorte: Uma revisão sistemática e metarregressão;Evaluación del sesgo de participación en estudios de cohortes: Una revisión sistemática y metarregresión

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2259-2274

  Silva Junior, Sérgio Henrique Almeida da ^a,b   Santos, Simone M ^a   Coeli, Cláudia Medina ^c   Carvalho, Marilia Sá ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Ministry of Education Brazil   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Epidemiologic methods; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; META ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS;

COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84957697063     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311X00133814     Document Type: Review

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