A New Criterion for Confounder Selection

DOI10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01619.xzbMath1274.62890WikidataQ38295854 ScholiaQ38295854MaRDI QIDQ2893399

Tyler J. Vanderweele, Ilya Shpitser

Publication date: 20 June 2012

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3166439

zbMATH Keywords

confounding; causal inference; directed acyclic graphs; covariate selection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

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