Illustrating bias due to conditioning on a collider.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  International Journal of Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2010-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

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  DOI 10.1093/ije/dyp334PMID 19926667PMCID PMC2846442
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