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Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Treatment of Confounders in Research

Published:1999-03 Issue:2 Volume:44 Page:175-179
ISSN:0706-7437
Container-title:The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
language:en
Short-container-title:Can J Psychiatry

Author:

Rhodes Anne E¹,Lin Elizabeth²,Streiner David L³

Affiliation:

1. Research Associate, Arthur Sommer Rotenberg Chair in Suicide Studies, St Michael's Hospital; PhD Candidate, Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

2. Research Scientist, Health Systems Research Unit; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

3. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Assistant Vice President of Research and Director, Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, North York, Ontario

Abstract

When one variable is studied to try to explain another, the relationship between them may be biased by a third variable. This bias, known as “confounding,” is common and must be minimized in research. This description is deceptively simple, though. Identifying confounding is complex but can be reduced to a stepped procedure. By way of examples, this article describes confounding and how to recognize it.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/070674379904400209

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