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Methodological issues of confounding in analytical epidemiologic studies
Confounding can be thought of as mixing the effect of exposure on the risk of disease with a third factor which distorts the measure of association such as risk ratio or odds ratio. This bias arises because of complex functional relationship of confounder with both exposure and disease (outcome). In...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Babol University of Medical Sciences
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24009920 |