Negative control exposure studies in the presence of measurement error: Implications for attempted effect estimate calibration

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 587-596

  Sanderson, Eleanor ^a   Macdonald Wallis, Corrie ^a   Smith, George Davey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Measurement error; Negative control exposure; Unobserved confounding

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS; CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 85052533582     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx213     Document Type: Article

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