articleJAMAJan 24, 2019Closed access

Using the E-Value to Assess the Potential Effect of Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies

Harvard University · Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute · +1 more institution

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Abstract

This Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses E-value analysis, an alternative approach to sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding in observational studies that specifies the degree of unmeasured confounding that would need to be operative to negate observed results in a study.

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Keywords
  • Confounding
  • Observational study
  • Medicine
  • Statistics
  • Value (mathematics)
  • Econometrics
  • Internal medicine
  • Mathematics
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