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Identifiability, exchangeability and confounding revisited

Sander Greenland1 email and James M Robins2 email

Department of Epidemiology and Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA

Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA

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Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2009, 6:4doi:10.1186/1742-5573-6-4

Published: 4 September 2009

Abstract

In 1986 the International Journal of Epidemiology published "Identifiability, Exchangeability and Epidemiological Confounding". We review the article from the perspective of a quarter century after it was first drafted and relate it to subsequent developments on confounding, ignorability, and collapsibility.


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