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Collider Bias

Authors :
Lars Wiuff Andersen
Mathias Johan Holmberg
Source :
Holmberg, M J & Andersen, L W 2022, ' Collider Bias ', JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 327, no. 13 . https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.1820
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
American Medical Association (AMA), 2022.

Abstract

This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods describes collider bias, illustrates examples in directed acyclic graphs, and explains how it can threaten the internal validity of a study and the accurate estimation of causal relationships in randomized clinical trials and observational studies.

Subjects

Subjects :
Bias
Risk Factors
General Medicine

Details

ISSN :
00987484
Volume :
327
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
JAMA
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1596259cb9296d75ebea730034436733
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.1820