Generalizing Study Results: A Potential Outcomes Perspective

Great care is taken in epidemiologic studies to ensure the internal validity of causal effect estimates; however, external validity has received considerably less attention. When the study sample is not a random sample of the target population, the sample average treatment effect, even if internally...

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Published in:	Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 28; no. 4; p. 553
Main Authors:	Lesko, Catherine R, Buchanan, Ashley L, Westreich, Daniel, Edwards, Jessie K, Hudgens, Michael G, Cole, Stephen R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.07.2017
Subjects:	Bias Causality Epidemiologic Methods Female Humans Male Predictive Value of Tests Reproducibility of Results Statistics as Topic United States
ISSN:	1531-5487, 1531-5487
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