Errors in the Interpretation of Errors in Epidemiology
- 1 November 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
- Vol. 52 (11), 1925-1928
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.52.11.1925
Abstract
The effect of misclassification of patients by interview or questionnaire methods is analyzed statistically. It is shown that so long as misclassification is unbiased, reported associations between disease and other factors are always smaller than the true associations.Keywords
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