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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2015 Apr 10;24(9):1004–1007. doi: 10.1002/pds.3773

Table 1.

Hypothetical data example demonstrating relevant confounding magnitude in estimating an exposure-outcome association in presence of a low prevalent binary confounder.

A B C D
total sample total sample confounder = 'no' confounder = 'yes'
exposure exposure exposure exposure
no yes no yes no yes no yes




outcome no 25 488 confounder no 22 948 outcome no 11 474 outcome no 14 14
yes 12 475 yes 15 15 yes 11 474 yes 1 1




37 963 37 963 22 948 15 15