Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide
Abstract Background Mortality data obtained from death certificates have been studied to explore causal associations between diseases. However, these analyses are subject to collider and reporting biases (selection and information biases, respectively). We aimed to assess to what extent associations...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-12-01
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Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-023-00320-y |