Confounding and control

This paper deals both with the issues of confounding and of control, as the definition of a confounding factor is far from universal and there exist different methodological approaches, ex ante and ex post, for controlling for a confounding factor. In the first section the paper compares some defin...

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Main Author: Guillaume Wunsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2007-02-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol16/4/