Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:472-473.
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Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health Boston University Boston, MA 02118
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Epidemiologists rely on the mantra that nondifferential misclassification creates an expected bias toward the null, despite several well-known exceptions (15). Perhaps less well known is that only nondifferential and independent misclassification creates an expected bias toward the null (3, 6
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