RT Book, Section
A1 Yadav, Kabir
A1 Lewis, Roger J.
A2 Livingston, Edward H.
A2 Lewis, Roger J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1184195926
T1 Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies
T2 JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260455328
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1184195926
RD 2024/04/24
AB This  JAMA  Guide  to  Statistics  and  Medicine  explains  immortal  time  bias,  an  error  in  estimating  the  association  between  an  exposure  and  an  outcome  that  results  from  misclassification  or  exclusion  of  time  intervals;  explains  how  this  misclassification  or  exclusion  can  occur;  and  presents  approaches  to  minimize  or  avoid  immortal  time  bias.