Strategic procedure in three stages for the selection of variables to obtain balanced results in public health research

• Main Authors: Manuel Lozano (Author), Lara Manyes (Author), Juanjo Peiró (Author), Adina Iftimi (Author), José María Ramada (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Multidisciplinary research in public health is approached using methods from many scientific disciplines. One of the main characteristics of this type of research is dealing with large data sets. Classic statistical variable selection methods, known as "screen and clean", and used in a sin...