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Citation

Hertz-Picciotto, Irva (2000). Invited Commentary: Shifting the Burden of Proof Regarding Biases and Low-Magnitude Associations. American Journal of Epidemiology, 151(10), 946-948.

Abstract

The issue of what exactly are the limits of epidemiology is now on the radar screen of the entire field. Shapiro (1) has added his thoughts to the public discussion by describing a sensitivity analysis of reported associations between oral contraceptive use and breast cancer. He addresses diagnostic selection bias and
information bias as possible explanations for small relative risks, demonstrating quite clearly that the overall association of 1.07 for ever use of oral contraceptives reported in a "collaborative reanalysis" of 54 studies could easily be due to a rather low magnitude of each of these biases.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010136

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2000

Journal Title

American Journal of Epidemiology

Series Title

Am J Epidemiol 2000 Jul 15;152(2):196

Author(s)

Hertz-Picciotto, Irva

ORCiD

Hertz-Picciotto - 000-0001-6952-2390