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Bias and Confounding
Bias and Confounding
CONFOUNDING
Dr. B K Rakshith
1st MDS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY
CONTENTS
Definition of Bias
Different types of bias in epidemiological study
Introduction of confounding
Common confounders
Control of confounding
References
BIAS
Any trend in the collection, analysis, interpretation, publication or review of
data that can lead to conclusions that are systematically different from the truth
(Last 2001)
Hawthorne effect: people act differently if they know they are being
watched