Identification of confounders and estimating the causal effect of place of birth on age-specific childhood vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In causal analyses, some third factor may distort the relationship between the exposure and the outcome variables under study, which gives spurious results. In this case, treatment groups and control groups that receive and do not receive the exposure are different from one another in some other essential variables, called confounders.

Method

Place of birth was used as exposure variable and age-specific childhood vaccination status was used as outcome variables. Three approaches of confounder selection techniques such as all pre-treatment covariates, outcome cause covariates, and common cause covariates were proposed. Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the propensity score for inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW) confounder adjustment tech

SUBMITTER: Iyassu AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11673688 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature