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Causal diagrams and the logic of matched case-control studies

It is tempting to assume that confounding bias is eliminated by choosing controls that are identical to the cases on the matched confounder(s). We used causal diagrams to explain why such matching not only fails to remove confounding bias, but also adds colliding bias, and why both types of bias are...

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Hauptverfasser: Shahar, Eyal, Shahar, Doron J
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Dove Medical Press 2012
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373198/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701093
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S31271
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