Identification of confounder in epidemiologic data contaminated by measurement error in covariates
Abstract 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 tru...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2016-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0159-6 |