Indirect Assessment of Confounding: Graphic Description and Limits on Effect of Adjusting for Covariates

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• Publication year

  1990

• Venue

  Epidemiology

• Publication date

  1990-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/00001648-199005000-00010PMID 2081259
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