When Does Confounding Occur

question 6

Multiple Choice

When does confounding occur?

• A)When the characteristics of the participants in the exposed group differ in some important way from those in the unexposed group
• B)When the characteristics of the participants in the study sample differ in some important way from those in the source population
• C)When the controls are not matched to the cases in a case-control study
• D)When the people lost to follow‐up in a cohort study differ from those who are not lost to follow‐up
• E)It occurs in all epidemiological research

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