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. 2009 Sep 4:6:4.
doi: 10.1186/1742-5573-6-4.

Identifiability, exchangeability and confounding revisited

Sander Greenland  1 , James M Robins
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Identifiability, exchangeability and confounding revisited

Sander Greenland et al. Epidemiol Perspect Innov. .

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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