Correction for the Effects of Measurement Error
Oxford University Press eBooksPublished 7 November 2012
Walter C. Willett
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the effect of measurement error in epidemiologic studies and statistical methods to compensate for measurement error. The discussion covers the types of errors; the correction of standard deviations; the correction of epidemiologic measures of association for measurement error; the correction of correlation coefficients; the correction of regression coefficients; the correction of relative risks; and correction for measurement error in confounding variables.
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