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negative control: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

an exposure or outcome chosen because it cannot plausibly be causally related to the other, so any association signals confounding or bias.

In epidemiology, negative control refers to an exposure or outcome chosen because it cannot plausibly be causally related to the other, so any association signals confounding or bias. This meaning comes from Lipsitch (2010) in Epidemiology.[1]

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References

Lipsitch, M., Tchetgen Tchetgen, E., & Cohen, T. (2010). Negative Controls: A Tool for Detecting Confounding and Bias in Observational Studies. Epidemiology, 21(3), 383-388. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0b013e3181d61eeb

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