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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:472-473.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "NEIGHBORHOOD ENVIRONMENT AND LOSS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION IN OLDER ADULTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY"

Timothy L. Lash and Aliza K. Fink

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 (1–5). Perhaps less well known is that only nondifferential and independent misclassification creates an expected bias toward the null (3, 6. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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