Barton J, Bain C, Hennekens C H, Rosner B, Belanger C, Roth A, Speizer F E
Am J Public Health. 1980 Aug;70(8):823-5. doi: 10.2105/ajph.70.8.823.
In establishing a cohort of U.S. nurses, an assessment of response bias was made comparing respondents and non-respondents with regard to age, education, state of residence, employment status, field of employment, and major specialty. Overall, the 122,328 respondents (69.7 per cent) and 43,222 non-respondents were quite similar. Together with the reasonable response rate in a homogeneous population, this suggests that estimation of exposure-disease associations is unlikely to be affected by major bias due to non-response.
在建立一个美国护士队列时,对应答偏倚进行了评估,比较了应答者和未应答者在年龄、教育程度、居住州、就业状况、就业领域和主要专业方面的情况。总体而言,122328名应答者(69.7%)和43222名未应答者非常相似。再加上同质人群中合理的应答率,这表明暴露-疾病关联的估计不太可能受到因无应答导致的重大偏倚的影响。