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ArticleBiostatistics & epidemiology2021

The importance of having a conceptual stage when reporting non-randomized studies.

M-A C Bind, D B Rubin

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Article in Biostatistics & epidemiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

M-A C BindBiostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
D B RubinYau Center for Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Funding

Transporting established insights from classical experimental design to address causal questions in environmental epidemiology including the understanding of biological mediating mechanismsDP5OD021412 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BIND, MARIE-ABELE CATHERINE · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
Statistical Designs and Methods for Double-Sampling for HIV/AIDSR01AI102710 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI FRANGAKIS, CONSTANTINE E · 2013 to 2016
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI102710NIH HHS DP5 OD021412
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formal guidelines for statistical reporting of non-randomized studies are important for journals that publish results of such studies. Although it is gratifying to see some journals providing guidelines for statistical reporting, we feel that the current guidelines that we have seen are not entirely adequate when the study is used to draw causal conclusions. We therefore offer some comments on ways to improve these studies. In particular, we discuss and illustrate what we regard as the need for an essential initial stage of any such statistical analysis, the

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