Criteria for Confounders in Epidemiological Studies

DOI10.1111/1467-9868.00321MaRDI QIDQ4407186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 7 August 2003

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9868.00321

zbMATH Keywords

causal effectscomparabilityconfoundingcounterfactual modelepidemiological methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Ecology (92D40)

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• Causation, prediction, and search
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(11)

• Detecting multiple confounders
• The foundations of confounding in epidemiology
• On the definition of a confounder
• Confounding, homogeneity and collapsibility for causal effects in epidemiologic studies.
• Identification of confounding versus dispersing covariates by confounding influence
• Adjustments and their consequences -- Collapsibility analysis using graphical models
• Confounding in Epidemiologic Studies: The Adequacy of the Control Group as a Measure of Confounding
• Some results about standardization for a non confounder in estimators of (log) relative risk
• Conditions for uniformly non-confounding of causal distribution effects over multiple covariates
• Efficiency-improved doubly robust estimation with non-confounding predictive covariates
• Criteria for confounders in survival function

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