Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data

• Main Authors: Lash, Timothy L. (Author), Fox, Matthew P. (Author), Fink, Aliza K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Computer simulation.; Statistics.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Infectious Diseases.; Simulation and Modeling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87959-8

This text provides the first-ever compilation of bias analysis methods for use with epidemiologic data. It guides the reader through the planning stages of bias analysis, including the design of validation studies and the collection of validity data from other sources. Three chapters present methods...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, objectives and an alternative
• A guide to implementing quantitative bias analysis
• Data sources for bias analysis
• Selection bias
• Unmeasured and unknown confounders
• Misclassification
• Multidimensional bias analysis
• Probabilistic bias analysis
• Multiple bias modeling
• Presentation and inference.