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The risk of misclassifying subjects within principal component based asset index

The asset index is often used as a measure of socioeconomic status in empirical research as an explanatory variable or to control confounding. Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently used to create the asset index. We conducted a simulation study to explore how accurately the principal comp...

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Autores principales: Sharker, MA Yushuf, Nasser, Mohammed, Abedin, Jaynal, Arnold, Benjamin F, Luby, Stephen P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24987446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-11-6