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RE: "STUDIES WITH LOW RESPONSE PROPORTIONS MAY BE LESS BIASED THAN STUDIES WITH HIGH RESPONSE PROPORTIONS"
1 Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
3 Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, WA.
4 Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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We agree with Stang and Jöckels (1) conclusion that if exposure misclassification is substantial and increases with the difficulty of respondent recruitment, studies with low response proportions may be less biased than studies with high response proportions. However, Stang and Jöckel acknowledged that there had been no studies of the magnitude of such potential misclassification in relation to the difficulty of respondent recruitment.
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