Confounding and control
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Confounding and control
This paper deals both with the issues of confounding and of control, as the definition of a confounding factor is far from universal and there exist different methodological approaches, ex ante and ex post, for controlling for a confounding factor. In the first section the paper compares some definitions of a confounder given in the demographic and epidemiological literature with the definition...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2007.16.4