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Mellon Confounding Problems Undergraduate Research Grants

Confounding Problems Grants assist undergraduate students in pursuing research related to so-called confounding (or wicked) problems. These are large-scale problems that resist any simple solution — ...
CMAJ

Testing group differences for confounder selection in nonrandomized studies: flawed practice

Using observed imbalances between study groups (e.g., exposed and unexposed) to determine variables for confounding adjustment in nonrandomized studies may misguide the selection of variables to ...
JSTOR Daily

Methodologic Issues in Hospital Epidemiology. IV. Risk Ratios, Confounding, Effect Modification, and the Analysis of Multiple Variables

Jonathan Freeman, Donald A. Goldmann and John E. McGowan, Jr. Most information in hospital epidemiology comes from observational studies of hospitalized patients, not from planned experiments. Data ...
JSTOR Daily

Instrumental variables as bias amplifiers with general outcome and confounding

Drawing causal inference with observational studies is the central pillar of many disciplines. One sufficient condition for identifying the causal effect is that the treatment-outcome relationship is ...
Business Wire

Herophilus Publishes General Method for Detecting Relevant Signals in Machine Learning Analysis of Complex Biological Datasets

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Herophilus, a leading biotechnology company developing neurotherapeutics to cure complex brain diseases, today announced the publication of research that describes a ...
MedPage Today on MSN

No Clear Autism Link With Prenatal Tylenol, Major Review Finds

An analysis of nine systematic reviews found no clear link between prenatal acetaminophen and autism or ADHD in children. The ...