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- who: SUBJECT AREAS and colleagues from the School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University have published the research: Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? A simulation study, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 13/05/2014
- how: The simulation results showed that if a well-established confounding effect is not observed in a dataset the results should be interpreted with caution because the exposure-outcome association obtained from the dataset is likely to be biased.
- future: Other forms of confounding for instance confounding by a categorical . . .
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