Theory meets practice: a commentary on VanderWeele's 'principles of confounder selection'

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. schneeweiss@post.harvard.edu.

Comment

Sebastian Schneeweiss. Eur J Epidemiol. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;34(3):221-222.

doi: 10.1007/s10654-019-00495-5. Epub 2019 Mar 6.

¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. schneeweiss@post.harvard.edu.

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Comment on

Principles of confounder selection.
VanderWeele TJ. VanderWeele TJ. Eur J Epidemiol. 2019 Mar;34(3):211-219. doi: 10.1007/s10654-019-00494-6. Epub 2019 Mar 6. Eur J Epidemiol. 2019. PMID: 30840181 Free PMC article.

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