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The role of causal reasoning in understanding Simpson's paradox, Lord's paradox, and the suppression effect: covariate selection in the analysis of observational studies

Tu et al present an analysis of the equivalence of three paradoxes, namely, Simpson's, Lord's, and the suppression phenomena. They conclude that all three simply reiterate the occurrence of a change in the association of any two variables when a third variable is statistically controlled f...

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Autor Principal: Arah, Onyebuchi A
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266743/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18302750
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-5-5
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