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SUBMITTER: MacLehose RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3257063 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
MacLehose Richard F RF Gustafson Paul P
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 20120101 1
Case-control studies are particularly susceptible to differential exposure misclassification when exposure status is determined following incident case status. Probabilistic bias analysis methods have been developed as ways to adjust standard effect estimates based on the sensitivity and specificity of exposure misclassification. The iterative sampling method advocated in probabilistic bias analysis bears a distinct resemblance to a Bayesian adjustment; however, it is not identical. Furthermore, ...[more]