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Using ecological propensity score to adjust for missing confounders in small area studies

Small area ecological studies are commonly used in epidemiology to assess the impact of area level risk factors on health outcomes when data are only available in an aggregated form. However, the resulting estimates are often biased due to unmeasured confounders, which typically are not available fr...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yingbo, Pirani, Monica, Hansell, Anna L, Richardson, Sylvia, Blangiardo, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6230467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29136109
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxx058