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Identification of confounder in epidemiologic data contaminated by measurement error in covariates

BACKGROUND: Common methods for confounder identification such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), hypothesis testing, or a 10 % change-in-estimate (CIE) criterion for estimated associations may not be applicable due to (a) insufficient knowledge to draw a DAG and (b) when adjustment for a true confou...

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Autores principales: Lee, Paul H., Burstyn, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27193095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0159-6