Revisiting Overadjustment Bias

Haidong Lu¹, Stephen R Cole², Robert W Platt³, Enrique F Schisterman⁴

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¹ Public Health Modeling Unit and Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
³ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD.

PMID: 34172691
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001377

Revisiting Overadjustment Bias

Haidong Lu et al. Epidemiology. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 1;32(5):e22-e23.

doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001377.

Authors

Haidong Lu¹, Stephen R Cole², Robert W Platt³, Enrique F Schisterman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Modeling Unit and Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
³ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁴ Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD.

PMID: 34172691
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001377

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