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ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2019

Analyzing Selection Bias for Credible Causal Inference: When in Doubt, DAG It Out.

Onyebuchi A Arah

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Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Onyebuchi A ArahFrom the Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA.

Funding

UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026
$118.1M
Statistics and Methods CoreR24HD041022 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BUCHINSKY, MOSHE · 2001 to 2016
$10.1M
Scientific and Technical CoreP2CHD041022 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HIRAM BELTRAN-SANCHEZ · 2016 to 2026
$6.9M
The impact of natural experiments on child obesity: A systems science approachR01HD072296 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI PRELIP, MICHAEL LEE, WANG, MAY C · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD041022NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD072296NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD041022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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BiasConfounding Factors, EpidemiologicSelection Bias

Identifiers

PMID31033691
PMCPMC6597247

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