Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 3 , Pages 281-289 , March 2006

Nondifferential disease misclassification may bias incidence risk ratios away from the null

  • Juha Pekkanen

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, P.O. Box 95, 70701 Kuopio, Finland
    • Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: 358-17-201265.
    • ,
  • Jordi Sunyer

      Affiliations

    • Unitat de Recerca Respiratòria i Ambiental. Institut Municipal Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • ,
  • Susan Chinn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

,Accepted 13 July 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.07.013

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 3 , Pages 281-289 , March 2006

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