The Impact of Prior Distributions for Uncontrolled Confounding and Response Bias
Author:
- Sander GreenlandSGSander Greenland
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 98 (461) , 47-54
Abstract
This article examines the potential for misleading inferences from conventional analyses and sensitivity analyses of observational data, and describes some proposed solutions based on specifying pr...Keywords
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