Technical Considerations in the Use of the E-Value

The E-value is defined as the minimum strength of association on the risk ratio scale that an unmeasured confounder would have to have with both the exposure and the outcome, conditional on the measured covariates, to explain away the observed exposure-outcome association. We have elsewhere proposed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: VanderWeele Tyler J., Ding Peng, Mathur Maya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2018-0007