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Combining directed acyclic graphs and the change-in-estimate procedure as a novel approach to adjustment-variable selection in epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are an effective means of presenting expert-knowledge assumptions when selecting adjustment variables in epidemiology, whereas the change-in-estimate procedure is a common statistics-based approach. As DAGs imply specific empirical relationships which can b...

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Autores principales: Evans, David, Chaix, Basile, Lobbedez, Thierry, Verger, Christian, Flahault, Antoine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23058038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-156