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ACSH Explains 'Confounding': Why Correlation Does Not Mean Causation

Isn't it odd that Florida has so many people living with Alzheimer's? If Erin Brockovich was investigating the case, she probably would conclude that it's something to do with the water. Isn't it odd ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Observational Comparative Research in Cardiovascular and Brain Health and Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...
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Adjustments for confounding variables in observational population-based studies in oncology and comparison to results from randomized controlled trials.

Collection and utilization of oncology big data. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Nature

Association of symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with childhood overweight adjusted for confounding parental variables

There have been numerous reports on association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and overweight/obesity in children and adolescents; however ...
Nature

Overview of techniques to account for confounding due to population stratification and cryptic relatedness in genomic data association analyses

Population-based genomic association analyses are more powerful than within-family analyses. However, population stratification (unknown or ignored origin of individuals from multiple source ...