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The Control Outcome Calibration Approach for Causal Inference With Unobserved Confounding

Unobserved confounding can seldom be ruled out with certainty in nonexperimental studies. Negative controls are sometimes used in epidemiologic practice to detect the presence of unobserved confounding. An outcome is said to be a valid negative control variable to the extent that it is influenced by...

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Autor principal: Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwt303