Confounding and collapsibility in causal inference

DOI10.1214/ss/1009211805zbMath1059.62506OpenAlexW1996016456WikidataQ60620554 ScholiaQ60620554MaRDI QIDQ1431156

Judea Pearl, Sander Greenland, James M. Robins

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1009211805

zbMATH Keywords

exchangeability collapsibility relative risk causation observational studies contingency tables odds ratio Simpson's paradox confounding risk assessment Bias

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Contingency tables (62H17)

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