Causal diagrams and multivariate analysis I: a quiver full of arrows.

Jupiter, Daniel C · J Foot Ankle Surg · 2014

review · Level V

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Abstract

How do we know which variables we should include in our multivariate analyses? What role does each variable play in our understanding of the analysis? In this article I begin a discussion of these issues and describe 2 different types of studies for which this problem must be handled in different ways.

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