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E-value: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

the minimum strength of association an unmeasured confounder would need with both exposure and outcome to explain away an observed effect.

In epidemiology, E-value refers to the minimum strength of association an unmeasured confounder would need with both exposure and outcome to explain away an observed effect. This meaning comes from VanderWeele (2017) in Annals of Internal Medicine.[1]

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association4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs exposure6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs need3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

VanderWeele, T. J., & Ding, P. (2017). Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value. Annals of Internal Medicine, 167(4), 268-274. https://doi.org/10.7326/m16-2607

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