The directions of selection bias

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2017.01.022zbMATH Open1380.62123OpenAlexW2963008287MaRDI QIDQ2407770FDOQ2407770

Authors Zhichao Jiang, Peng Ding

Publication date 6 October 2017

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07834

zbMATH Keywords

monotonicityodds ratiointeraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Parametric inference (62F99) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

Abstract: We show that if the exposure and the outcome affect the selection indicator in the same direction and have non-positive interaction on the risk difference, risk ratio or odds ratio scale, the exposure-outcome odds ratio in the selected population is a lower bound for true odds ratio.

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