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The Directions of Selection Bias

Statistics Theory 2017-01-17 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We show that if the exposure and the outcome affect the selection indicator in the same direction and have non-positive interaction on the risk difference, risk ratio or odds ratio scale, the exposure-outcome odds ratio in the selected population is a lower bound for true odds ratio.

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@article{arxiv.1609.07834,
  title  = {The Directions of Selection Bias},
  author = {Zhichao Jiang and Peng Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.07834},
  year   = {2017}
}