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Decreasing the potential for confounding
History
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Overview
- Causal inference
- Dependent variable Dependent and independent variables
- Spurious association Spurious relationship
- Causal Causality
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Randomization Randomized controlled trial
- Notation systems Causal notation
- Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) Directed acyclic graph
- Internal validity
Definition
Examples
Control
- Collider Collider (epidemiology)
- Berkson's paradox
- Bad controls Bad control
History
- Medieval Latin
- Fisher Ronald Fisher
- Blocking Blocking (statistics)
- Partitioning Partition of a set
- Factorial experiment
- Kish Leslie Kish
- Epidemiology
- Neyman Jerzy Neyman
- Rubin Donald Rubin
- Pearl Judea Pearl
Types
- Risk assessments Risk assessment
- Human
- Health
- Pesticide
- Experimental Experiment
- Observational studies
- Random assignment
- Quasi-experiment
Decreasing the potential for confounding
- Multiple comparisons
- Peer review
- Replication Replication (statistics)
- Case-control studies Case-control study
- Alaska
- Cohort studies Cohort study
- Statistically significant Statistical significance
- Double blinding
- Placebo effect
- Stratification Stratification (statistics)
- Risk ratios Risk ratio
- Covariates Covariate
- Multivariable analysis Multivariate statistics
- Regression analysis
- Antidepressant
- TCA Tricyclic antidepressant
- SSRI
- Randomized study Randomization
- Sufficiently large Law of large numbers
- Sham treatments Sham treatment
Artifacts
- External validity
- Control group Experimental control
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Confounding
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confounding | is a | form of systematic error | 0.90 | text |
| Confounding | is a | causal concept rather than a purely statistical one | 0.90 | text |
| Confounding | is a | particular challenge | 0.90 | text |
| the Back-Door condition | instance of | These were later supplemented by graphical criteria | 0.80 | text |
| a food additive | instance of | it is important to control for confounding to isolate the effect of a particular hazard | 0.80 | text |
| pesticide | instance of | it is important to control for confounding to isolate the effect of a particular hazard | 0.80 | text |
| or new drug | instance of | it is important to control for confounding to isolate the effect of a particular hazard | 0.80 | text |
| the use of a random number generator | instance of | using a randomization process | 0.80 | text |
| regression analysis | instance of | that account for stratification of data sets.Controlling for confounding by measuring the known confounders and including them as covariates is multivariable analysis | 0.80 | text |
| Confounding | related to Criticism | Concerns | 0.60 | section |
| Confounding | related to Decreasing the potential for confounding | If | 0.60 | section |
| Confounding | related to Decreasing the potential for confounding | Additionally | 0.60 | section |
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