Modellselektion in einer Studie zur berufsbedingten Gonarthrose – Erfahrungen mit der Anwendung von Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)

Schlüsselwörter

Gonarthrose - Confounder - DAG - kausale Diagramme - epidemiologische Methoden - Berufskrankheit

Key words

osteoarthritis - knee - confounding factors - DAG - causal diagrams - epidemiologic methods - occupational disease

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