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Chance, Bias & Confounding (Examples (Smoking, Socioeconomic Status,…
Chance, Bias & Confounding
Confounding
- Confounding is caused by confounders
- Confounders are ‘extraneous risk factors’
- The presence of confounders makes our results inaccurate
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Confounder
- It is associated with exposure.
- It is not in the causal pathway between exposure and disease
- It is a risk factor for the disease, independent of the exposure we are studying.
Identifying Confounders
- have expert knowledge (or ask someone who does)
- have prior experience with the data
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