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SUBMITTER: Westreich D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357801 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Westreich Daniel D Edwards Jessie K JK Lesko Catherine R CR Cole Stephen R SR Stuart Elizabeth A EA
American journal of epidemiology 20190201 2
In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to problems of external validity, specifically to methodological approaches for both quantitative generalizability and transportability of study results. However, most approaches to these issues have considered external validity separately from internal validity. Here we argue that considering either internal or external validity in isolation may be problematic. Further, we argue that a joint measure of the validity of an effect estimate with r ...[more]