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Transporting results in an observational epidemiology setting: purposes, methods, and applied example
Ist Teil von
Frontiers in Epidemiology (Online), 2024, Vol.4, p.1335241-1335241
Ort / Verlag
Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
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EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the medical domain, substantial effort has been invested in generating internally valid estimates in experimental as well as observational studies, but limited effort has been made in testing generalizability, or external validity. Testing the external validity of scientific findings is nevertheless crucial for the application of knowledge across populations. In particular, transporting estimates obtained from observational studies requires the combination of methods for causal inference and methods to transport the effect estimates in order to minimize biases inherent to observational studies and to account for differences between the study and target populations. In this paper, the conceptual framework and assumptions behind transporting results from a population-based study population to a target population is described in an observational setting. An applied example to life-course epidemiology, where internal validity was constructed for illustrative purposes, is shown by using the targeted maximum likelihood estimator.