Conditions for bias from differential left truncation.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on December 05, 2006

Authors

Penelope P Howards1, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Charles Poole

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD 20852, USA. howardsp@mail.nih.gov

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