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Reducing bias through directed acyclic graphs

BACKGROUND: The objective of most biomedical research is to determine an unbiased estimate of effect for an exposure on an outcome, i.e. to make causal inferences about the exposure. Recent developments in epidemiology have shown that traditional methods of identifying confounding and adjusting for...

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Autores principales: Shrier, Ian, Platt, Robert W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2601045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18973665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-8-70