On the collapsibility of measures of effect in the counterfactual causal framework
Abstract The relationship between collapsibility and confounding has been subject to an extensive and ongoing discussion in the methodological literature. We discuss two subtly different definitions of collapsibility, and show that by considering causal effect measures based on counterfactual variab...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-018-0083-9 |