Studying noncollapsibility of the odds ratio with marginal structural and logistic regression models

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1925-1937

  Pang, Menglan ^a   Kaufman, Jay S ^a   Platt, Robert W ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

confounding bias; logistic regression model; marginal structural model; noncollapsibility; odds ratio

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; STRUCTURAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 84989891314     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280213505804     Document Type: Article

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