Relative hazards of smoking.
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Assessment and indirect adjustment for confounding by smoking in cohort studies using relative hazards models.
Workers' smoking histories are not measured in many occupational cohort studies. Here we discuss the use of negative control outcomes to detect and adjust for confounding in analyses that lack information on smoking. We clarify the assumptions necessary to detect confounding by smoking and the additional assumptions necessary to indirectly adjust for such bias. We illustrate these methods using...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5746.461-b