Principles of confounder selection

Selecting an appropriate set of confounders for which to control is critical for reliable causal inference. Recent theoretical and methodological developments have helped clarify a number of principles of confounder selection. When complete knowledge of a causal diagram relating all covariates to ea...

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Published in:	European journal of epidemiology Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 211 - 219
Main Author:	VanderWeele, Tyler J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01.03.2019 Springer Netherlands Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Bias Cardiology Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic Decision making Decisions Epidemiology ESSAY Exposure Feature selection Humans Infectious Diseases Inference Knowledge Medicine Medicine & Public Health Oncology Public Health Research Design Statistical methods Variables Causal inference Confounder Collider Selection Covariate adjustment
ISSN:	0393-2990, 1573-7284, 1573-7284
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