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The spectre of Berkson's paradox: Collider bias in Covid‐19 research
Author(s) -
Herbert Annie,
Griffith Gareth,
Hemani Gibran,
Zuccolo Luisa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/1740-9713.01413
Subject(s) - covid-19 , collider , sampling (signal processing) , history , physics , medicine , particle physics , virology , optics , disease , pathology , detector , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
When non‐random sampling collides with our understanding of Covid‐19 risk, we must be careful not to draw incorrect conclusions about cause and effect. By Annie Herbert, Gareth Griffith, Gibran Hemani and Luisa Zuccolo